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The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III - Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family (Hardcover, New)
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The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III - Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family (Hardcover, New)
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Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose
"many worlds" theory of multiple universes has had a profound
impact on physics and philosophy. Using Everett's unpublished
papers (recently discovered in his son's basement) and dozens of
interviews with his friends, colleagues, and surviving family
members, Byrne paints, for the general reader, a detailed portrait
of the genius who invented an astonishing way of describing our
complex universe from the inside. Everett's mathematical model
(called the "universal wave function") treats all possible events
as "equally real," and concludes that countless copies of every
person and thing exist in all possible configurations spread over
an infinity of universes: many worlds.
Afflicted by depression and addictions, Everett strove to bring
rational order to the professional realms in which he played
historically significant roles. In addition to his famous
interpretation of quantum mechanics, Everett wrote a classic paper
in game theory; created computer algorithms that revolutionized
military operations research; and performed pioneering work in
artificial intelligence for top secret government projects. He
wrote the original software for targeting cities in a nuclear hot
war; and he was one of the first scientists to recognize the danger
of nuclear winter. As a Cold Warrior, he designed logical systems
that modeled "rational" human and machine behaviors, and yet he was
largely oblivious to the emotional damage his irrational personal
behavior inflicted upon his family, lovers, and business partners.
He died young, but left behind a fascinating record of his life,
including correspondence with such philosophically inclined
physicists as Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and John Wheeler. These
remarkable letters illuminate the long and often bitter struggle to
explain the paradox of measurement at the heart of quantum physics.
In recent years, Everett's solution to this mysterious problem-the
existence of a universe of universes-has gained considerable
traction in scientific circles, not as science fiction, but as an
explanation of physical reality.
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