Something Deeply Hidden

Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

By: Sean Carroll

Narrated by: Sean Carroll

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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 20th 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.

An honest and humble look at fundamental physics

Couldn't stop listening when I started. The most honest description of physics I've heard In a while. Also really nice to atlast get a physics book on something new and not just rehashing the same old stories

Thought provoking most of the time

Great book that was insightful and interesting. However, in one chapter, the author tried explaining the concepts in a mock dialogue between two people. The stilted conversational language was horrendous and I almost stopped listening. Thankfully it was only one chapter.

Insightful and well written

I learned a lot reading this book for the first time and I'm immediately starting over to read it again now that I finished the first time. There is so much knowledge to be gained from this book. The author discusses several theories and the pros and cons of them, and even describes why some things work and some things don't work with the theories described. I found it to be insightful and well written, I would recommend it to anyone interested in learning about quantum mechanics.

Explain very well ..

Easy to understand and comprehend .. Great analogy and so on.. ending was way too soon ..

Thought Provoking

I thoroughly enjoyed the easy writing style of the author.

It's definitely worth a read.