The Fabric of Reality
The Science of Parallel Universesand Its Implications
by David Deutsch
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“I honestly think it was reading The Fabric of Reality that finally gave me the courage, 18 years ago, to leave my company and take over leadership of TED. | Realized that a quantum computer would be fundamentally unlike anything we have in this world today.”
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Physics, Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant, and Most Recommended Books.
For David Deutsch, a young physicist of unusual originality, quantum theory contains our most fundamental knowledge of the physical world. Taken literally, it implies that there are many universes ?parallel? to the one we see around us. This multiplicity of universes, according to Deutsch, turns out to be the key to achieving a new worldview, one w...
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Co-founder of AngelList; angel investor
“I honestly think it was reading The Fabric of Reality that finally gave me the courage, 18 years ago, to leave my company and take over leadership of TED. | Realized that a quantum computer would be fundamentally unlike anything we have in this world today.”
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