The Universe Next Door: A Journey through 55 Alternative Realities, Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures

The Universe Next Door: A Journey through 55 Alternative Realities, Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures
ISBN-10
1473658683
ISBN-13
9781473658684
Series
The Universe Next Door
Category
Science
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2017-11-07
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey
Author
New Scientist

Description

A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures. It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just one of many possible worlds. In others, dinosaurs still rule the Earth, the Russians got to the Moon first, time flows backwards and everyone is vegetarian. And that's just for starters. What if the laws of physics were different? If we really did live in a multiverse? If robots became smarter than us? If humans were wiped off the face of the planet? Join New Scientist on a thrilling journey through these and dozens of other incredible but perfectly possible alternative realities, thought experiments and counterfactual histories -each shining a surprising and unexpected spotlight on life as we know it.

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