Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements & Thanks VI
4. Introduction VIII
5. Prologue: Walk Towards A Distant Star X
6. 1 Time - Part 1 1
7. 2 When is Now? 2
8. 3 The Time Explorer’s Toolkit 4
9. 4 Infinity & Infinities 15
10. 5 Our Quantized Reality: Life in the Strobe Lights 20
11. 6 A Surprisingly Puzzling Reality 24
12. 7 Wave Functions: Mathematics Is Reality 26
13. 8 The Most Complex Object in the Known Universe 32
14. 9 Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle (aka Indeterminacy) 36
15. 10 Time - Part 2: the Guises of Time 38
16. 11 Gödel Universes? 51
17. 12 Big Bangs 57
18. 13 Bubbles of Time 62
19. 14 Multiverse Scenarios 67
20. 15 In Search of OM 73
21. End Notes 83
22. Further Reading 107
23. Index 111