The Simplest-Case Scenario: How the Universe May Be Very Different From What We Think It Is - Softcover

Coryat, Karl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1537745921 ISBN 13: 9781537745923

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Toward the end of his life, the great 20th-century physicist John Archibald Wheeler proposed an idea he called "it from bit": The universe, he claimed, isn't ultimately composed of matter and energy, or fields and forces, or space and time, but instead, digital bits of information. Scientists have been intrigued by this conjecture for decades, but no one has known where to start building such a radical theory. The Simplest-Case Scenario is a tour of physics and philosophy with stops at relativity, quantum mechanics, the multiverse, probability, chaos theory, fractals, the Big Bang, the origin of life, and human and animal consciousness — leading to a unified picture in which the Cosmos is far, far simpler than we think. Based on a prize-winning physics essay.

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About the Author

Karl Coryat is a science writer and videomaker, author of books for musicians, music journalist, musician, comedian, and Jeopardy champion. He studied Biology at U.C. Berkeley and lives in Northern California.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1537745921
• ISBN 13: 9781537745923
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296