Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major gaps in the theory have been ignored since 1927. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how contradictory, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Put...
Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major gaps in the theory have been ignored since 1927. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how contradictory, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line, Carroll says that crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us.
The Many Worlds Theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Since the beginning of the universe about fourteen billion years ago, this has happened about ten to the tenth to the one-hundredth power times. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he sets out the major objections to this utterly mind-blowing notion until his case is inescapably established.
The holy grail of modern physics is reconciling quantum mechanics with Einstein's general relativity—his theory of curved spacetime. Carroll argues that our refusal to face up to the mysteries of quantum mechanics has blinded us, and that spacetime and gravity naturally emerge from a deeper reality called the wave function. No book for a popular audience has attempted to make this radical argument. We're on the threshold of a new way of understanding the cosmos.
作者简介
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SEAN CARROLL is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, host of the Mindscape podcast, and author of From Eternity to Here, The Particle at the End of the Universe, and The Big Picture. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the American Institute of Physics, and the Royal Society of London, among many oth...
SEAN CARROLL is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, host of the Mindscape podcast, and author of From Eternity to Here, The Particle at the End of the Universe, and The Big Picture. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the American Institute of Physics, and the Royal Society of London, among many others. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, writer Jennifer Ouellette.
A masterpiece on quantum reality and emergence. Sean Carroll's logic and clarity in explaining mind-boggling concepts in theoretical physics is superb!
想要探讨量子力学都不可避免会越讲越靠近哲学、神学，最近几年这方面的书的标题都常常带有“reality”这个词(What is Real, The Hidden Reality等)。为什么叠加态的粒子一旦被人观测到后其波函数就立刻坍缩？难道它们能“意识”到自己被观测了吗？主流物理学界一直是shut up and calculate的态度，最近开始物理学家尝试直面这个问题。本书支持Hugh Evere...想要探讨量子力学都不可避免会越讲越靠近哲学、神学，最近几年这方面的书的标题都常常带有“reality”这个词(What is Real, The Hidden Reality等)。为什么叠加态的粒子一旦被人观测到后其波函数就立刻坍缩？难道它们能“意识”到自己被观测了吗？主流物理学界一直是shut up and calculate的态度，最近开始物理学家尝试直面这个问题。本书支持Hugh Everett的平行叠加世界(Many-Worlds)说法，并对比另外几种学说。Many-Worlds的优势：austere and robust，基本素材就是1. 宇宙是一个大的波函数 2. 薛定谔方程式，没了。优美简洁，不像竞争理论(GRW, Bohmian Mechanics)那样太多ad hoc设定(展开)
got lost in the third part about quantum gravity. first and second parts felt great though, explained the development and basic concepts about quantum theory quite clearly.
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0 有用 Mike 2025-06-10 18:59:46 四川
A masterpiece on quantum reality and emergence. Sean Carroll's logic and clarity in explaining mind-boggling concepts in theoretical physics is superb!
0 有用 كاثرين 2020-10-22 22:28:25
想要探讨量子力学都不可避免会越讲越靠近哲学、神学，最近几年这方面的书的标题都常常带有“reality”这个词(What is Real, The Hidden Reality等)。为什么叠加态的粒子一旦被人观测到后其波函数就立刻坍缩？难道它们能“意识”到自己被观测了吗？主流物理学界一直是shut up and calculate的态度，最近开始物理学家尝试直面这个问题。本书支持Hugh Evere... 想要探讨量子力学都不可避免会越讲越靠近哲学、神学，最近几年这方面的书的标题都常常带有“reality”这个词(What is Real, The Hidden Reality等)。为什么叠加态的粒子一旦被人观测到后其波函数就立刻坍缩？难道它们能“意识”到自己被观测了吗？主流物理学界一直是shut up and calculate的态度，最近开始物理学家尝试直面这个问题。本书支持Hugh Everett的平行叠加世界(Many-Worlds)说法，并对比另外几种学说。Many-Worlds的优势：austere and robust，基本素材就是1. 宇宙是一个大的波函数 2. 薛定谔方程式，没了。优美简洁，不像竞争理论(GRW, Bohmian Mechanics)那样太多ad hoc设定 (展开)
0 有用 cyberpiok 2021-09-05 13:39:15
got lost in the third part about quantum gravity. first and second parts felt great though, explained the development and basic concepts about quantum theory quite clearly.
1 有用 CoolBean 2021-01-09 17:04:55
我是迷妹，可是science一类的话题感觉还是教科书更好看。另 sean的演讲都好有魅力啊
0 有用 酒莫空 2023-08-16 09:01:09 北京
一本Sean Carroll特色鲜明的量子力学主题著作。再次感概Sean自洽的世界观，在讨论不同的主题时能以不同的角度去理解和展现。 Sean作为诚恳的Everettian，这本书主要从Many-worlds角度出发，讨论量子力学的基础和本质。 多年前第一次看到Many-worlds的思想就被惊艳，一直关注相关话题；Many-worlds从来不是最主流的量子力学理论，而这本书主要从Many-wor... 一本Sean Carroll特色鲜明的量子力学主题著作。再次感概Sean自洽的世界观，在讨论不同的主题时能以不同的角度去理解和展现。 Sean作为诚恳的Everettian，这本书主要从Many-worlds角度出发，讨论量子力学的基础和本质。 多年前第一次看到Many-worlds的思想就被惊艳，一直关注相关话题；Many-worlds从来不是最主流的量子力学理论，而这本书主要从Many-worlds视角出发，比较全面和详细的讨论其为何具有吸引力、其解决现有难题的假说、存在的问题和可能的解决途径。 最具启发的一点是，与其从经典物理假设出发然后将其量子化，而是直接假设世界是量子的，通过reverse engineering倒推出我们熟悉的经典世界；这也正是Many-worlds最根本的逻辑。 (展开)