INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Science News favorite science book of 2019 As you read
these words copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll theoretical physicist and one of
this world's most celebrated writers on science rewrites the history of twentieth-century
physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that
facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about
space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity
changes well everything. Most physicists haven't even recognized the uncomfortable truth:
Physics has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps-which have
come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is how impossible
it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the dead end of quantum
foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely
reasonable book Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept
that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many many Sean Carrolls. Many of
every one of us. Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. The Many-Worlds
theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event a world splits off
with everything in it the same except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen.
Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way he tackles the major objections to this
otherworldly revelation until his case is inescapably established. Rarely does a book so fully
reorganize how we think about our place in the universe. We are on the threshold of a new
understanding-of where we are in the cosmos and what we are made of.
