Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos
2006· Penguin Books· 448 pages
Synopsis
As Michio Kaku reveals, what for 250 years was science-fiction fantasy is now the likeliest picture of reality... the journey he takes the reader on is so pituresque and the conclusions so startling that you are gripped - Sunday Times
The world is coming to an end. But humankind's story is only just beginning...
Imagine a future where we are not alone. Where our universe is just one of countless parallel worlds - some strangely familiar, some almost unimaginable. And that, when planet earth finally runs down to a cold, dark wasteland, we will be able to escape into these new worlds and start again. Kaku's thrilling guide to the galaxy shows us how it could happen sooner than we think - and the future for intelligent life is one of endless possibilities.
Kaku brings his formidable explanatory talents to bear on one of the strangest and most exciting possibilities to have emerged from modern physics... wonderful - Brian Greene
One of the gurus of modern physics - Financial Times
Nobody who reads this book cane be anything less than amazed - Scotland on Sunday
An exhilarating romp through the frontiers of cosmology - Martin Rees
Cover image: Joe Tucciarone / Science Photo Library
The world is coming to an end. But humankind's story is only just beginning...
Imagine a future where we are not alone. Where our universe is just one of countless parallel worlds - some strangely familiar, some almost unimaginable. And that, when planet earth finally runs down to a cold, dark wasteland, we will be able to escape into these new worlds and start again. Kaku's thrilling guide to the galaxy shows us how it could happen sooner than we think - and the future for intelligent life is one of endless possibilities.
Kaku brings his formidable explanatory talents to bear on one of the strangest and most exciting possibilities to have emerged from modern physics... wonderful - Brian Greene
One of the gurus of modern physics - Financial Times
Nobody who reads this book cane be anything less than amazed - Scotland on Sunday
An exhilarating romp through the frontiers of cosmology - Martin Rees
Cover image: Joe Tucciarone / Science Photo Library
