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From multiverses to cities: Books in brief (Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01277-0BOOK REVIEW
03 May 2024
From multiverses to cities: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
By Andrew Robinson
The Allure of the Multiverse
Paul Halpern Basic (2024)
The term ‘multiverse’ was coined in the 1890s by philosopher and psychologist William James, to describe a cosmos without distinction between right and wrong. Decades later, the word entered physics, owing to the 1950s many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Today, it is a source of controversy, says US physicist Paul Halpern. The multiverse, “with realms beyond direct detection”, seems “antithetical to the goal of testability”. But whether right or wrong, debating it is scientifically productive, Halpern maintains.
Unshrinking
Kate Manne Crown (2024)
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Not the End of the World
Hannah Ritchie Little Brown Spark (2024)
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2020
Eric Klinenberg Bodley Head (2024)
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The Weirdness of the World
Eric Schwitzgebel Princeton Univ. Press (2024)
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01277-0