24 Best physics books like Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

By: Sean Carroll

4.07

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a…

"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem likely."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

If you liked the physics plot in Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum (Theoretical Minimum #2)

By: Leonard Susskind , Art Friedman

4.33

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Theoretical Minimum, a DIY introduction to the math and science … read more

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  • quantum mechanics
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2. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

By: Leonard Susskind

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a yo… read more

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  • history
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3. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

By: Brian Greene

4.13

Format: 569 pages, Paperback

The fabric of the cosmos read more

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"life"

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"наша история прошлого часто лишь информирует о наших переживаниях в настоящем."

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"полная скорость движения любого объекта в пространстве и во времени всегда в точности равна скорости света."

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

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4. Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

By: Lee Smolin , Henry Reich

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

One of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals offers a radical new view of the nature of ti… read more

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5. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

By: None

3.36

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

Our Mathematical Universeis a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discov… read more

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6. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

By: Brian Greene

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surroun… read more

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"...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"La cosmología tiene la capacidad de llamar nuestra atención a un nivel profundo y visceral, porque comprender cómo comenzó todo es, al menos para algunos, el punto en el que podemos encontrarnos más …"

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

7. Reality is Not What it Seems

By: Carlo Rovelli

3.17

Format: 120 pages,

From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more

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8. The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?

By: Lawrence M. Krauss

3.79

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of… read more

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"For most people, the central questions of existence ultimately come down to transcendental ones: Why is there a universe at all? Why are we here? Whatever presumptions one might bring to the question…"

-Lawrence M. Krauss, The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?

"When I am carrying an object such as a ruler, and moving fast compared to you, my ruler will be measured by you to be smaller than it is for me. I might measure it to be 10 cm, say: [Image] But to yo…"

-Lawrence M. Krauss, The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?

9. The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy

By: Carlo Rovelli

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Marvelous. . . . A wonderful book."--Humana.Mente "Rovelli is the dream author to conduct us on th… read more

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10. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

By: Richard P. Feynman

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Famous the world over for the creative brilliance of his insights into the physical world, Nobel Pr… read more

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11. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

By: John Gribbin

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it pr… read more

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"If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . ."

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

"...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our problems. In the absence of a better answer, we have to face up to the implications o…"

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...…"

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

"Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - part…"

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

12. The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics (Theoretical Minimum #1)

By: Leonard Susskind , George Hrabovsky

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

A Wall Street JournalBest Book of 2013 A world-class physicist and a citizen scientist combine forc… read more

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13. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

By: Nick Lane

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at th… read more

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14. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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15. Quantum Supremacy

By: Michio Kaku

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more

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Cover of Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli

16. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more

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"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

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17. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

By: Sean Carroll

4.07

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more

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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

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18. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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Cover of On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory by Thomas Hertog

19. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

By: Thomas Hertog

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more

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"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"

-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

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20. The Order of Time

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more

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"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

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21. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

By: Sabine Hossenfelder

3.92

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more

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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Cover of Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe by Harry Cliff

22. Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

By: Harry Cliff

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening ac… read more

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Cover of Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene

23. Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

By: Brian Greene

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of … read more

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"Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones."

-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

"The point being that everything emerges from the same collection of ingredients governed by the same physical principles. And those principles, as attested to by a few hundred years of observation, e…"

-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

Cover of What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam  Becker

24. What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

By: Adam Becker

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe… read more

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"Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than …"

-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

"Philosophy has an image problem. Philosophers are thought to be mystics, religious figures, bullshit artists—anything divorced from reality... Why is philosophy held in such contempt by many physicis…"

-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

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25. Beyond Weird

By: Philip Ball

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

'This is the book I wish I could have written but am very glad I've read' Jim Al-Khalili ‘I thin… read more

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"Quantum theory had the strangest genesis,"

-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird

"[C]lassical physics is just a special case of quantum physics."

-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird

"Cabe decir que los genios tienen más posibilidades de incurrir en el error que la media."

-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird

"Creer que el genio conlleva estar libre de error es malinterpretar la naturaleza de la creatividad y el entendimiento."

-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird

Cover of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder

26. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

By: Sabine Hossenfelder

4.06

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but b… read more

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"The main reason we use math in physics, however, is because we can."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

"foundational physics, which is far from experimental test as science can be while still being science"

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

"if you quote this, you can be the first person to quote someone quoting someone quoting himself quoting someone"

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

"Theoretical physicists used to explain what was observed. Now they try to explain why they can't explain what was not observed"

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

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27. Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

By: Jordan Ellenberg

3.73

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a … read more

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"The paradox of education: what we most admire we put in a box and make dull."

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs , and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to set…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"Often people think of developments in computation as arising when we make our computers more blazingly fast, so they can compute more stuff , bigger data . It's actually just as important to prune aw…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"What I like about stochastic gradient descent is how nuts it sounds. Imagine, for instance, that the president of the United States made decisions without any kind of global strategy; rather, the nat…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

Cover of Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Hidden 95% of the Universe (Hot Science) by Brian Clegg

28. Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Hidden 95% of the Universe (Hot Science)

By: Brian Clegg

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. Th… read more

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Cover of The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos by Lawrence M. Krauss

29. The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos

By: Lawrence M. Krauss

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Lawrence Krauss explores the greatest unanswered questions at the forefront of science today, and l… read more

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Cover of Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum by Lee Smolin

30. Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

By: Lee Smolin

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A daring new vision of the quantum universe, and the scandals controversies, and questions that may… read more

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"Put this way, almost every physical observable potentially conveys information. This definition would imply that "information" is present every time the values of two physical variables are correlate…"

-Lee Smolin, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

Cover of Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality by Anil Ananthaswamy

31. Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality

By: Anil Ananthaswamy

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Smithsonian 's Favorite Books of 2018 One of Forbes 's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Phys… read more

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26 Top nonfiction books like Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll

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