The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
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 “pa…
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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