Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

[front matter] / Dedication

Prologue: "Don’t Be Afraid"

Chapter 1: "What’s Going On: Looking at the Quantum World"

Chapter 2: "The Courageous Formulation: Austere Quantum Mechanics"

Chapter 3: "Why Would Anybody Think This? How Quantum Mechanics Came to Be"

Chapter 4: "What Cannot Be Known, Because It Does Not Exist: Uncertainty and Complementarity"

Chapter 5: "Entangled Up in Blue: Wave Functions of Many Parts"

Chapter 6: "Splitting the Universe: Decoherence and Parallel Worlds"

Chapter 7: "Order and Randomness: Where Probability Comes From"

Chapter 8: "Does This Ontological Commitment Make Me Look Fat? A Socratic Dialogue on Quantum Puzzles"

Chapter 9: "Other Ways: Alternatives to Many-Worlds"

Chapter 10: "The Human Side: Living and Thinking in a Quantum Universe"

Chapter 11: "Why Is There Space? Emergence and Locality"

Chapter 12: "A World of Vibrations: Quantum Field Theory"

Chapter 13: "Breathing in Empty Space: Finding Gravity within Quantum Mechanics"

Chapter 14: "Beyond Space and Time: Holography, Black Holes, and the Limits of Locality"

Epilogue: "Everything Is Quantum"

Appendix: "The Story of Virtual Particles"