Reviews
I currently live in the United States and work as a professor of theoretical physics and cosmology at the University of North Carolina. The origin of the universe is a central topic in cosmology today and a major area of my research. I can pursue answers. Fortunately, questions are not forbidden in academia here, even when they are two of the greatest cosmological questions of our time. (p. 16) Unlike the hot Big Bang model, inflationary cosmology explained flatness, homogeneity, and uniformity
This book is about the research on the multiverse by physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton. She is a distinguished American professor who studies the universe. At first, I simply assumed that this book might be difficult for someone without a science or engineering background. But as I read, I came to think it was written for a broad audience. First, it explains things clearly. That does not mean it treats the theories or scientific content superficially. It thoroughly covers modern physics,
I felt as if I’d been invited into an unfamiliar world. To my surprise, I got drawn into the story of the universe, a mysterious world introduced by a complete stranger. Many books discuss research on the universe, but I want to emphasize how remarkable the author’s role is here. Before reading it, I had never heard of Laura Mersini-Houghton. She is a world-renowned cosmologist and theoretical physicist, founder of one branch of multiverse theory, the “quantum landscape multiverse theory,” and
Depending on the reader’s perspective and individual level, this book about space science may be difficult, or it may be easier to approach and learn from. If you want to learn in detail about the basic definition and introduction to the universe presented in Infinite Possibilities of the Universe, and what the author means by “multiverse” and “multiple universes,” there could hardly be a better guide. As a book introducing the complex field of space, it explains in detail the different
This popular science book tells the story of the content and development of the multiverse theory, a leading school of thought in 21st-century cosmology. Across 11 chapters, the book follows the academic journey of its author, a theoretical physicist, in chronological order, covering the content and development of the theories in space physics she investigated. The author is Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton of the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of North Carolina. --- For
I sincerely hope this will be a chance to explore the boundless possibilities of space science, the secrets of the multiverse, and whether something called the multiverse exists. The harder and more difficult things are in our country, the more people want to escape the real world. From my perspective, seeing how the country has been run lately, it seems only natural to feel anger welling up. So the desire to get away from the real world is bound to be stronger than ever. What is one of the
I’ve come to feel that there are no things in our world that we can call confirmed answers. Can we believe the story of someone who argues that the universe we have always trusted is not one universe but a multiverse? Perhaps thinking of multiple dimensions in a fictional or religious sense helps us understand the multiverse as a collection of universes rather than the single universe we imagine. The multiverse may be the view of the cosmos we see most often in science-fiction films. Astronomy
This book stands out for the author’s personal experiences and the way she develops her arguments logically while explaining them clearly. It’s a good book to savor while marking passages with a highlighter. 332 pages, 413 g. The author is an Albanian-born woman physicist who founded the “quantum landscape multiverse theory” and is a professor of theoretical physics and cosmology at the University of North Carolina. Her personal experiences are woven throughout, including how she was affected
“The idea that our universe is not unique but belongs to a much larger family of universes—the multiverse—has moved from the fringe of cosmology into the scientific mainstream thanks to the research of my colleagues and me. p. 19” There was a time when we wondered where we came from and how the universe began, imagining all sorts of possibilities. We imagined many things, but never the multiverse. While watching movies such as Spider-Man and Interstellar that deal with the multiverse, I became
We seem to be familiar with the term multiverse in modern society. With imaginative novelists and advances in science-fiction film technology making multiverse images easy to create, many multiverse movies have been made and become hits. A multiverse is a collection of other universes that exist alongside ours—in other words, many universes besides our own. There is not yet scientific evidence that a multiverse exists, but physicists and philosophers have reportedly discussed the possibility
Laura Machiney-Horton: Universes of Infinite Possibilities
In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Spider-Man “Peter Parker” encounters other versions of himself from the “multiverse (parallel universes).” In Everything Everywhere All at Once, another film built on the multiverse premise, many people close to the protagonist live in completely different relationships in other universes. Other universes that branch off from ours and exist independently—the so-called “multiverse”—have become hugely popular across many forms of media. The idea that our universe may not be unique, and that each of many universes could have a completely different environment, fascinates many people. But the multiverse is not simply an SF fantasy. According to this book’s author, Laura Mersini-Houghton, a world-renowned cosmologist and theoretical physicist, the multiverse exists and can be scientifically proven. Until now, the multiverse has been regarded in physics as a speculative theory that could never be tested. But while investigating how the universe came into being before the Big Bang, Mersini-Houghton derived calculations showing that a quantum multiverse must exist for our universe to be born. She also presents traces of quantum entanglement observed in our universe’s sky as decisive evidence for the multiverse. Covering everything from inflationary cosmology to quantum mechanics and string theory, this book explains concepts developed in astrophysics, quantum mechanics, and quantum cosmology, guiding readers toward the conclusion that there is a multiverse.
Korean title: 무한한 가능성의 우주들
Korean author: 로라 머시니-호턴
Korean publisher: 동녘사이언스
ISBN-13: 9788990247872
Reviews
I currently live in the United States and work as a professor of theoretical physics and cosmology at the University of North Carolina. The origin of the universe is a central topic in cosmology today and a major area of my research. I can pursue answers. Fortunately, questions are not forbidden in academia here, even when they are two of the greatest cosmological questions of our time. (p. 16) Unlike the hot Big Bang model, inflationary cosmology explained flatness, homogeneity, and uniformity
This book is about the research on the multiverse by physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton. She is a distinguished American professor who studies the universe. At first, I simply assumed that this book might be difficult for someone without a science or engineering background. But as I read, I came to think it was written for a broad audience. First, it explains things clearly. That does not mean it treats the theories or scientific content superficially. It thoroughly covers modern physics,
I felt as if I’d been invited into an unfamiliar world. To my surprise, I got drawn into the story of the universe, a mysterious world introduced by a complete stranger. Many books discuss research on the universe, but I want to emphasize how remarkable the author’s role is here. Before reading it, I had never heard of Laura Mersini-Houghton. She is a world-renowned cosmologist and theoretical physicist, founder of one branch of multiverse theory, the “quantum landscape multiverse theory,” and
Depending on the reader’s perspective and individual level, this book about space science may be difficult, or it may be easier to approach and learn from. If you want to learn in detail about the basic definition and introduction to the universe presented in Infinite Possibilities of the Universe, and what the author means by “multiverse” and “multiple universes,” there could hardly be a better guide. As a book introducing the complex field of space, it explains in detail the different
This popular science book tells the story of the content and development of the multiverse theory, a leading school of thought in 21st-century cosmology. Across 11 chapters, the book follows the academic journey of its author, a theoretical physicist, in chronological order, covering the content and development of the theories in space physics she investigated. The author is Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton of the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of North Carolina. --- For
I sincerely hope this will be a chance to explore the boundless possibilities of space science, the secrets of the multiverse, and whether something called the multiverse exists. The harder and more difficult things are in our country, the more people want to escape the real world. From my perspective, seeing how the country has been run lately, it seems only natural to feel anger welling up. So the desire to get away from the real world is bound to be stronger than ever. What is one of the
I’ve come to feel that there are no things in our world that we can call confirmed answers. Can we believe the story of someone who argues that the universe we have always trusted is not one universe but a multiverse? Perhaps thinking of multiple dimensions in a fictional or religious sense helps us understand the multiverse as a collection of universes rather than the single universe we imagine. The multiverse may be the view of the cosmos we see most often in science-fiction films. Astronomy
This book stands out for the author’s personal experiences and the way she develops her arguments logically while explaining them clearly. It’s a good book to savor while marking passages with a highlighter. 332 pages, 413 g. The author is an Albanian-born woman physicist who founded the “quantum landscape multiverse theory” and is a professor of theoretical physics and cosmology at the University of North Carolina. Her personal experiences are woven throughout, including how she was affected
“The idea that our universe is not unique but belongs to a much larger family of universes—the multiverse—has moved from the fringe of cosmology into the scientific mainstream thanks to the research of my colleagues and me. p. 19” There was a time when we wondered where we came from and how the universe began, imagining all sorts of possibilities. We imagined many things, but never the multiverse. While watching movies such as Spider-Man and Interstellar that deal with the multiverse, I became
We seem to be familiar with the term multiverse in modern society. With imaginative novelists and advances in science-fiction film technology making multiverse images easy to create, many multiverse movies have been made and become hits. A multiverse is a collection of other universes that exist alongside ours—in other words, many universes besides our own. There is not yet scientific evidence that a multiverse exists, but physicists and philosophers have reportedly discussed the possibility
