Parallel Worlds: A journey through creation, higher dimensions, and the future of the cosmos PDF
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CONTENTS COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE PART I: THE UNIVERSE CHAPTER ONE: Baby Pictures of the Universe CHAPTER TWO: The Paradoxical Universe CHAPTER THREE: The Big Bang CHAPTER FOUR: Inflation and Parallel Universes PART II: THE MULTIVERSE CHAPTER FIVE: Dimensional Portals and Time Travel CHAPTER SIX: Parallel Quantum Universes CHAPTER SEVEN: M-Theory: The Mother of All Strings CHAPTER EIGHT: A Designer Universe? CHAPTER NINE: Searching for Echoes from the Eleventh Dimension PART III: ESCAPE INTO HYPERSPACE CHAPTER TEN: The End of Everything CHAPTER ELEVEN: Escaping the Universe CHAPTER TWELVE: Beyond the Multiverse NOTES RECOMMENDED READING GLOSSARY OTHER BOOKS BY MICHIO KAKU COPYRIGHT PAGE This book is dedicated to my loving wife, Shizue. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank the following scientists who were so gracious in donating their time to be interviewed. Their comments, observations, and ideas have greatly enriched this book and added to its depth and focus: • Steven Weinberg, Nobel laureate, University of Texas at Austin • Murray Gell- Mann, Nobel laureate, Santa Fe Institute and California Institute of Technology • Leon Lederman, Nobel laureate, Illinois Institute of Technology • Joseph Rotblat, Nobel laureate, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (retired) • Walter Gilbert, Nobel laureate, Harvard University • Henry Kendall, Nobel laureate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (deceased) • Alan Guth, physicist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, Cambridge University • Freeman Dyson, physicist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University • John Schwarz, physicist, California Institute of Technology • Lisa Randall, physicist, Harvard University • J. Richard Gott III, physicist, Princeton University • Neil de Grasse Tyson, astronomer, Princeton University and Hayden Planetarium • Paul Davies, physicist, University of Adelaide • Ken Croswell, astronomer, University of California, Berkeley • Don Goldsmith, astronomer, University of California, Berkeley • Brian Greene, physicist, Columbia University • Cumrun Vafa, physicist, Harvard University • Stuart Samuel, physicist, University of California, Berkeley • Carl Sagan, astronomer, Cornell University (deceased) • Daniel Greenberger, physicist, City College of New York • V. P. Nair, physicist, City College of New York • Robert P. Kirshner, astronomer, Harvard University • Peter D. Ward, geologist, University of Washington • John Barrow, astronomer, University of Sussex • Marcia Bartusiak, science journalist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • John Casti, physicist, Santa Fe Institute • Timothy Ferris, science journalist • Michael Lemonick, science writer, Time magazine • Fulvio Melia, astronomer, University of Arizona • John Horgan, science journalist • Richard Muller, physicist, University of California, Berkeley • Lawrence Krauss, physicist, Case Western Reserve University • Ted Taylor, atomic bomb designer • Philip Morrison, physicist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Hans Moravec, computer scientist, Carnegie Mellon University • Rodney Brooks, computer scientist, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Donna Shirley, astrophysicist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory • Dan Wertheimer, astronomer, SETI@home, University of California, Berkeley • Paul Hoffman, science journalist, Discover magazine • Francis Everitt, physicist, Gravity Probe B, Stanford University • Sidney Perkowitz, physicist, Emory University I would also like to thank the following scientists for stimulating discussions about physics over the years that have greatly helped to sharpen the content of this book: • T. D. Lee, Nobel laureate, Columbia University • Sheldon Glashow, Nobel laureate, Harvard University • Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate, California Institute of Technology (deceased) • Edward Witten, physicist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University • Joseph Lykken, physicist, Fermilab • David Gross, physicist, Kavli Institute, Santa Barbara • Frank Wilczek, physicist, University of California, Santa Barbara • Paul Townsend, physicist, Cambridge University • Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen, physicist, State University of New York, Stony Brook • Miguel Virasoro, physicist, University of Rome • Bunji Sakita, physicist, City College of New York (deceased) • Ashok Das, physicist, University of Rochester • Robert Marshak, physicist, City College of New York (deceased) • Frank Tipler, physicist, Tulane University • Edward Tryon, physicist, Hunter College • Mitchell Begelman, astronomer, University of Colorado I would like to thank Ken Croswell for numerous comments on the book.
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