The Fabric of Reality David Deutch

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The Fabric of Reality
 
David Deutch
 
Deutsch’s pioneering and accessible book integrates recent advances in
theoretical physics and computer science to explain and connect many
topics at the leading edge of current research and thinking, such as quantum
computers, and physics of time travel, and the ultimate fate of the universe.
David Deutch
 
The Fabric of Reality
 

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PENGUIN BOOKS
 
THE FABRIC OF REALITY
 
Born in Haifa, Israel, David Deutsch was educated at Cambridge University
and Oxford University. He is a member of the Quantum Computation and
Cryptography Research Group at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford
University. His papers on quantum computation laid the foundations for that
field, and he is an authority on the theory of parallel universes.

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Praise for The Fabric of Reality
 
“Full of refreshingly oblique, provocative insights … Quantum mechanics,
Deutsch insists, must be taken not just as a predictive tool, but as an
explanation for how the world really works.”
— George Johnson, 
The New York Times
“David Deutsch is a deeply knowledgeable professional physicist who has no
truck with mystical false analogies … [he] has become the most eloquent
spokesman of the Many Universes interpretation of quantum behavior, and [
The Fabric of Reality] makes this theme coherent with some well-thought-out
views of epistemology, of biological evolution, and of the theory of
computation.”
— Richard Dawkins
“In the library of physics for laypeople, Deutsch’s book is unique. Correction:
it is multiversal, existing in innumerable universes that Deutsch argues exist
alongside the ‘real’ universe that people perceive. Explaining that, and
persuading the reader of its scientific truth, makes this work unique … the
confidence with which Deutsch presents his views, and the absence of
condescension in his style, accesses nonscientists to his seemingly alien
world(s).”
— ALA Booklist
“David Deutsch is one of Britain’s most original thinkers. In this major work
he confronts the deepest questions of existence head on, challenging
traditional notions of reality with a new worldview that interweaves physics,
biology, computing, and philosophy. I haven’t been so inspired since I read
Douglas Hofstadter’s 
Gödel, Escher, Bach.”
— Paul Davies, author of 
About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
“Deutsch provides a model of reality that is as provocative as it is complex.
… An intellectually stimulating read for the science-literate and motivated
layperson.… The author exhibits… a thorough knowledge of his subject
matter. … In a field where scientific inquiry challenges not only our
imagination but basic assumptions about our physical world, this volume
provides the essential information needed for future debates.”
— 
Publishers Weekly

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Dedicated to the memory of Karl Popper, Hugh Everett and Alan Turing, and
to Richard Dawkins. This book takes their ideas seriously.

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