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Hiding in the Mirror The Quest for Alternate Realities, from Plato to String Theory (by Way of Alice in Wonderland, Einstein, and the Twilight Zone)

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ISBN-10: 0143038028

ISBN-13: 9780143038023

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lawrence M. Krauss

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An exploration of mankinds fascination with worlds beyond our ownby the bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek Lawrence Krauss an international leader in physics and cosmologyexamines our long and ardent romance with parallel universes, veiled dimensions, and regions of being that may extend tantalizingly beyond the limits of our perception. Krauss examines popular cultures current embrace (and frequent misunderstanding) of such topics as black holes, life in other dimensions, strings, and some of the more extraordinary new theories that propose the existence of vast extra dimensions alongside our own. BACKCOVER: An astonishing and brilliantly written work of popular science.…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Andrew Hurley is a professor of history at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Hurley is the author of Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 and Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis.Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist. Krauss is professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He is the only physicist to have received awards from all three major U.S. physics societies: the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics. Lawrence Krauss received…