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050 00 $aQB981$b.K134 2005
100 1 $aKaku, Michio.
245 10 $aParallel worlds :$ba journey through creation, higher dimensions, and the future of the cosmos /$cMichio Kaku.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c2005.
300 $axvii, 428 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
520 1 $a"In his first book of physics since Hyperspace, Michio Kaku begins by describing the extraordinary advances that have transformed cosmology over the last century, and particularly over the last decade, forcing scientists around the world to rethink our understanding of the birth of the universe and its ultimate fate." "The very idea of parallel universes and the string theory that can explain their existence was once viewed with suspicion by scientists, seen as the province of mystics, charlatans, and cranks. But today, theoretical physicists overwhelmingly support string theory and its latest iteration, M-theory, as it is the one theory that, if proven correct, would reconcile the four forces of the universe simply and elegantly, and answer the question "What happened before the big bang?""--BOOK JACKET
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [403]-405) and index.
505 5 $apt. 1. The universe : Baby pictures of the universe -- The paradoxical universe -- The Big Bang -- Inflation and parallel universes. -- pt. 2. The multiverse : Dimensional portals and time travel -- Parallel quantum universes -- M-theory : the mother of all strings -- A designer universe? -- Searching for echoes from the eleventh dimension. -- pt. 3. Escape into hyperspace : The end of everything -- Escaping the universe -- Beyond the multiverse.
650 0 $aCosmology.
650 0 $aBig bang theory.
650 0 $aSuperstring theories.
650 0 $aSupergravity.
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