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Brian Greene THE HIDDEN REALITY Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos Contents Preface 1. The Bounds of Reality On Parallel Worlds 2. Endless Doppelgängers The Quilted Multiverse 3. Eternity and Infinity The Inflationary Multiverse 4. Unifying Nature’s Laws On the Road to String Theory 5. Hovering Universes in Nearby Dimensions The Brane and Cyclic Multiverses 6. New Thinking About an Old Constant The Landscape Multiverse 7. Science and the Multiverse On Inference, Explanation, and Prediction 8. The Many Worlds of Quantum Measurement The Quantum Multiverse 9. Black Holes and Holograms The Holographic Multiverse 10. Universes, Computers, and Mathematical Reality The Simulated and Ultimate Multiverses 11. The Limits of Inquiry Multiverses and the Future Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Follow Penguin To Alec and Sophia ALSO BY BRIAN GREENE Icarus at the Edge of Time The Fabric of the Cosmos The Elegant Universe Preface If there was any doubt at the turn of the twentieth century, by the turn of the twenty-first, it was a foregone conclusion: when it comes to revealing t......