Something Deeply Hidden

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Science News favorite science book of 2019As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world's most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of twentieth-century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Most physicists haven't even recognized the uncomfortable truth: Physics has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps-which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us. Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. The Many-Worlds theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he tackles the major objections to this otherworldly revelation until his case is inescapably established. Rarely does a book so fully reorganize how we think about our place in the universe. We are on the threshold of a new understanding-of where we are in the cosmos, and what we are made of.

SEAN CARROLL'S GROWING BRAND: Each of Sean Carroll's books has continued to outsell the previous book. Each paperback edition is on track to outsell the hardcover edition. These ever-increasing sales are a testament to Carroll's growing-and enduring-brand.CATEGORY AT ITS PEAK: As seen by the success of physics and quantum mechanics books over the last couple years, by Rovelli, Tegmark, Greene, and others, interest in the mysteries of our reality has never had a more rapt or broad audience.SEASONED AND POPULAR AUTHOR: Carroll has appeared on The Colbert Report (twice), PBS's NOVA, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. He has been interviewed by various NPR shows, Scientific American, Wired, and The New York Times. His TED talk on the multiverse has more than one million views.GROWING ONLINE AUDIENCE: With over 225,000 followers across two Twitter handles and a new podcast featuring Carroll in conversation with contemporary big-thinkers with 60,000 listeners in only three months, Carroll brings a growing platform to this publication.EXCELLENT PUBLICITY EXPOSURE: Among other stellar publicity, Sean Carroll appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience to discuss the book, in an episode with over 1.5 million views.