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Parallel worlds : a journey through creation, higher dimensions, and the future of the cosmos / Michio Kaku.

Kaku, Michio. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0385509863
  • ISBN: 9780385509862
  • Physical Description: xvii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-405) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. 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.
Subject:
Big bang theory.
Cosmology.
Supergravity.
Superstring theories.

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