In 'Something Deeply Hidden,' Sean Carroll Argues There Are Infinite Copies Of You
The physicist dives into fraught territory, taking up the age-old debate over quantum mechanics — aiming to convince readers that the Many Worlds interpretation is the one that describes reality.
by Adam Frank
Sep 13, 2019
4 minutes
Everyone knows we live in a partisan age. It's hard to find any issue these days that people aren't ready to square off on, with sharp, snarky barbs.
While no one will be surprised to find these kinds of arguments playing out about immigration or the importance of NATO, finding it among staid physicists — and about the nature of physical reality — might not be so expected. But all too often over the last 100 years, this has been the case, as scientists have disagreed sharply over the meaning of their greatest and most potent theory known as quantum mechanics.
That's the fraught territory best-selling author and physicist Sean Carroll dives into with his new book . What
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