#34 in Popular science
The Hidden Reality
- 384
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 3 weeks on the list, peaked at #10
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Our view
“The Hidden Reality” is Brian Greene’s lucid tour of the theories suggesting that our universe may be one of many. From endless big bangs to copies of each of us, he lays out the competing kinds of multiverse for a general reader. Some readers admire his analogies and find nothing recycled from his earlier books; others object that he lets some claims through without enough argument.
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About the book
The bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos tackles perhaps the most mind-bending question in modern physics and cosmology: Is our universe the only universe? There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, a number of theories are converging on the possibility that our universe may be but one among many parallel universes populating a vast multiverse. Here, Briane Greene, one of our foremost physicists and science writers, takes us on a breathtaking journey to a multiverse comprising an endless series of big bangs, a multiverse with duplicates of every one of us, a multiverse populated by vast sheets of spacetime, a multiverse in which all we consider real are holographic illusions, and even a multiverse made purely of math--and reveals the reality hidden within each. Using his trademark wit and precision, Greene presents a thrilling survey of cutting-edge physics and confronts the inevitable question: How can fundamental science progress if great swaths of reality lie beyond our reach? The Hidden Reality is a remarkable adventure through a world more vast and strange than anything we could have imagined.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 67 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 31% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Popular science average of 8.3. That is how 8.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 10 | 15% |
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 57 | 85% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Hidden Reality?
It has 384 pages — longer than 67% of the ranked books in Popular science.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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