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| Introduction | |
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| Quantum Physics: Bringing in an Observer | |
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| Relativity: Relationships-Weird and Wonderful | |
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| Cosmology: A Search for the Beginning | |
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| Psychology: Consciousness and Machine Intelligence | |
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| Parallel Universes and Communication with the Future | |
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| What Are Parallel Universes? | |
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| How Quantum Physics Predicts the Existence of Parallel Universes | |
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| The New Physics Had Strange Ideas | |
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| The Penultimate Experiment: Shooting Through Double Slits | |
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| The Mystery Persists | |
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| The Wave Was Not Real | |
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| Why Parallel Universes Were Invented | |
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| Riding the Wave Through Parallel Worlds | |
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| A Dizzy Atom in an Infinity of Worlds | |
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| The Quantum Magic Lantern Theater | |
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| The Electron Exists in Parallel Universes | |
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| A Wave Passes Through Copenhagen | |
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| Trouble in the New Physics | |
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| The Observer Participates Whether She Wants to or Not | |
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| The Meaning of a Quantum Wave Function | |
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| The Wave Was Invisible | |
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| The Emperor's New Clothes: The Quantum Wave Function | |
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| Does the Universe Quantum Jump? | |
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| A Reappraisal: What Happened to the Unity in Universe? | |
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| The Business of Isness | |
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| Infinity, Infinity Everywhere and Not a Spot to Think | |
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| The First Infinity: A Straight Line | |
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| Infinity Number 2-It's All Done with Mirrors | |
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| How Things That Are Depend on Things That Aren't and How We Aren't Normally Aware That Anything is Any Different | |
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| Reflections in a Parallel Universe | |
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| In-Betweenness or Room for One More | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Self-Reference: Isness and Ain'tness | |
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| It's a Complementary World After All | |
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| An Example: A Coin in Four Universes | |
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| Look Up in the Air-It's Superspace! | |
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| Superspace! Broadway Theater Style | |
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| Uncertainty in Superspace | |
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| What If Newton Was Right? Silly Superspace | |
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| A Pattern of Order in Superspace: Consciousness Emerging | |
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| A Mouse, a Coin, and a Quantum Conspiracy | |
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| A Conspiracy of Universes | |
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| Inside and Outside: Time Bends and Space Warps | |
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| Relativity and Time As a Dimension of Space | |
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| Primal Time | |
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| The First Time I Saw Spacetime | |
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| The Popular Dimension of Time | |
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| How Time Can Be Viewed as the Fourth Dimension | |
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| The Democratization of Space and Time | |
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| A Relativistic Game of Catch | |
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| What Does a Four-Dimensional Object Look Like? | |
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| Time Is Space Is Time Is... | |
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| Real Time, Zero Time, Imaginary Time and Real Space, and Imaginary Space | |
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| Invariance in Geometry | |
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| Invariance in Spacetime | |
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| Imaginary Space | |
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| A Change in Time | |
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| Going Down Fifth Avenue in Spacetime | |
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| An Ordinary Particle | |
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| A Zero-Time Ghost | |
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| An Imaginary Time Superman | |
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| Einstein's Parallel Universe | |
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| If Pythagoras Is Right, Spacetime Is Flat | |
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| Visualizing a Curved Space | |
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| Einstein's Curves | |
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| Einstein Going Around the Bend | |
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| Measuring Time Warps | |
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| A Bend in Time Means a Parallel Universe | |
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| Black Holes: Gateways to Parallel Universes | |
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| Space Warps | |
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| How Space Curvature Creates a Black Hole | |
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| What Is a Black Hole? | |
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| How Black Holes Predicted Parallel Universes | |
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| My Meeting with a Black Hole Map Maker | |
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| What's Black and White and Dread All Over? | |
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| An Imaginary Journey to Parallel Universes Through a Black Hole | |
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| Sending Tachyons to Do a Photon's Work | |
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| How a Rotating Black Hole Is a Bridge to Many Universes | |
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| An Infinity of Parallel Universes | |
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| "In the Beginning There Was..." | |
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| The First Inconsistency, Not Enough Time to Start the Universe | |
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| Inflationary Models | |
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| Inflation Is Not Enough | |
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| Parallel Universes Solve Another Problem | |
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| The First Observer of the Big Bang | |
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| The Names of God | |
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| A Cloud and the Observer Effect | |
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| The Observer Disturbs and Creates | |
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| The Grand Prix at the Beginning of Time | |
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| Time at the Beginning of Time | |
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| Space Where No One Has Gone Before | |
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| Black Holes: Another Way to a Parallel Universe | |
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| The Scale of the Universe | |
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| Problems in Eden | |
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| Singularities Do Not Admit Laws of Physics in Their Domains | |
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| In the Beginning There Was Uncertainty | |
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| The Ground Upon Which the Universe Stood | |
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| An Electron in an Atom and a Universe in a Universe of Universes | |
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| The Universe at Time Zero: Energy or Location? | |
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| Who Saw What When? | |
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| The Measure of All Things | |
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| Classical Gas on the Mind | |
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| Classical Coin Flipping | |
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| Quantum Spin Flipping | |
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| How Parallel Universes Predict a New Notion of Time | |
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| Do Thoughts and Wishes Time Travel? | |
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| Neutron Star Time Machines | |
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| Time Travel | |
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| Time Travel Paradox Resolution by Parallel Universes | |
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| Clashing Waves of Time | |
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| Time Is Invisible | |
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| Classical Physics Has No Time Order | |
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| Quantum Physics Has No Time Order | |
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| Time Waves | |
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| A New Picture of Time | |
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| Which Future Sends the Message? | |
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| Me in the Future Talks to Me in the Now | |
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| Wheeler's Choice | |
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| A Photon from the Dawn of Time | |
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| Experimental Verification of Backward-Through-Time Travel | |
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| Now Makes the Past | |
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| Does the Future Influence the Present? | |
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| Resolving the Paradox: Time Travel and Parallel Universes | |
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| Time Is Self-Consistently Connected to Parallel Universes | |
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| Building a Time Machine | |
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| Dateline December 3, 2587: Galaxy News Report | |
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| Dateline December 15, 2587: Galaxy News Report | |
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| Back to the Present | |
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| Time and Mind in Parallel Universes | |
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| The Mind in Parallel Worlds | |
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| Mind in Parallel Universes | |
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| Quantum Rules of the Game According to Hoyle | |
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| A Knight's Alter Egos | |
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| The Spouse-of-the-Day | |
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| Quantum "Two-Timers" and more Messages from the Future | |
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| How to Violate the Uncertainty Principle: Talk to Yourself in the Future | |
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| Taking a Photograph of Another Parallel Universe | |
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| Get Your Cameras Ready | |
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| The Rules of Parallel Universe Photography | |
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| Taking the Photograph of a Parallel World | |
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| Using Parallel Universes to Predict the Stock Market | |
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| How Is something Known? | |
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| Quantum Computers and Quantum Ethics | |
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| Quantum Ethics | |
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| Talking to Tomorrow's Parallel Universe | |
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| The Infinite Number of Parallel Universes...Inside Your Head | |
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| The Scientist's Brain Is Split by the Atom | |
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| Information Flows from Past to Present and from Future to Present | |
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| Alpha and Omega | |
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| Both the Future and the Past Exist | |
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| The Omega Point | |
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| An Overall View | |
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| Reality and Existence | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |