LEADER 05530nam 22005174a 450 001 9910814628703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a978019965924 010 $a1-282-73072-X 010 $a9786612730726 010 $a0-19-157643-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053849 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7038247 035 $a(PPN)159826713 035 $a(CKB)2670000000040825 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000040825 100 $a20100305d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe many worlds of Hugh Everett III $emultiple universes, mutual assured destruction, and the meltdown of a nuclear family /$fPeter Byrne 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2010 215 $axiii, 436 p$cill$d26 cm 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [399]-416)and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Forewords -- Book 1: Beginnings -- Introduction: The Story of Q -- 1 Family Origins: a Sketch -- 2 Katharine: the Dark Star -- 3 The Scientist as a Young Man -- 4 Stranger in Paradise -- Book 2: Game World -- 5 Demigods -- 6 Decisions, Decisions-the Theory of Games -- 7 Origin of MAD -- 8 Von Neumann's Legacy -- Book 3: Quantum World -- 9 Quantum Everett -- 10 More on the Measurement Problem -- 11 Collapse and Complementarity -- 12 The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics -- Book 4: Everett and Wheeler -- 13 Wheeler: the Radical Conservative -- 14 Genesis of Many Worlds -- 15 Alone in the Room -- 16 Tour of Many Worlds -- 17 The Battle with Copenhagen, Part I -- 18 The Battle with Copenhagen, Part II -- 19 The Chapel Hill Affair -- Book 5: Possible World Futures -- 20 Preparing for World War III -- 21 From Wargasm to Looking Glass -- 22 Fallout -- Book 6: Crossroads -- 23 A Bell Jar World -- 24 A Vacation in Copenhagen -- Book 7: Assured Destruction -- 25 Everett and Report 50 -- 26 Everett and the SIOP -- Book 8: Transitions -- 27 Behind Closed Doors -- 28 Death' s Other Kingdoms -- Book 9: Beltway Bandit -- 29 Weaponeering -- 30 The Bayesian Machine -- 31 The Death of Lambda -- Book 10: Many Worlds Reborn -- 32 DeWitt to the Rescue -- 33 Records in Time -- 34 Austin -- 35 Wheeler Recants -- Book 11: American Tragedy -- 36 The Final Years -- 37 Aftermath -- Book 12: Everett's Legacy -- 38 Modern Everett -- 39 Everett goes to Oxford -- Epilogue: Beyond Many Worlds -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. 330 $a"Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "many worlds" theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy. Using Everett's unpublished papers (recently discovered in his son's basement) and dozens of interviews with his friends, colleagues, and surviving family members, Byrne paints, for the general reader, a detailed portrait of the genius who invented an astonishing way of describing our complex universe from the inside. Everett's mathematical model (called the "universal wave function") treats all possible events as "equally real", and concludes that countless copies of every person and thing exist in all possible configurations spread over an infinity of universes: many worlds. Afflicted by depression and addictions, Everett strove to bring rational order to the professional realms in which he played historically significant roles. In addition to his famous interpretation of quantum mechanics, Everett wrote a classic paper in game theory; created computer algorithms that revolutionized military operations research; and performed pioneering work in artificial intelligence for top secret government projects. He wrote the original software for targeting cities in a nuclear hot war; and he was one of the first scientists to recognize the danger of nuclear winter. As a Cold Warrior, he designed logical systems that modeled "rational" human and machine behaviors, and yet he was largely oblivious to the emotional damage his irrational personal behavior inflicted upon his family, lovers, and business partners. He died young, but left behind a fascinating record of his life, including correspondence with such philosophically inclined physicists as Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and John Wheeler. These remarkable letters illuminate the long and often bitter struggle to explain the paradox of measurement at the heart of quantum physics. In recent years, Everett's solution to this mysterious problem-the existence of a universe of universes-has gained considerable traction in scientific circles, not as science fiction, but as an explanation of physical reality"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aNuclear physicists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aQuantum theory 606 $aSpace and time 606 $aDefense contracts$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aNuclear physicists 615 0$aQuantum theory. 615 0$aSpace and time. 615 0$aDefense contracts$xHistory 676 $a530.092 676 $aB 700 $aByrne$b Peter$0143606 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910814628703321 996 $aThe many worlds of Hugh Everett III$94012044 997 $aUNINA