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Other Worlds: Space, Superspace, and the Quantum Universe

by Paul Davies · 1980 · 208 pages

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When physicists began exploring the inner workings of the atom, they uncovered a world so weird that it overturned our very concept of reality. When you journey into the quantum universe you enter a world ruled by chance. Commonsense notions of space, time and causality must be left behind as the realm of solid matter dissolves away into vibrating patterns of ghostly energy; even spacetime itself is revealed as an ephemeral froth of wormholes and tunnels.

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Subject
science
Setting
outer space
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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