The Fabric of Reality

“Full of refreshingly oblique, provocative insights … Quantum mechanics, Deutsch insists, must be taken not just as a predictive tool, but as an explanation for how the world really works.”

— George Johnson, The New York Times

“David Deutsch is a deeply knowledgeable professional physicist who has no truck with mystical false analogies … [he] has become the most eloquent spokesman of the Many Universes interpretation of quantum behavior, and [The Fabric of Reality] makes this theme coherent with some well-thought-out views of epistemology, of biological evolution, and of the theory of computation.”

— Richard Dawkins

“In the library of physics for laypeople, Deutsch’s book is unique. Correction: it is multiversal, existing in innumerable universes that Deutsch argues exist alongside the ‘real’ universe that people perceive. Explaining that, and persuading the reader of its scientific truth, makes this work unique … the confidence with which Deutsch presents his views, and the absence of condescension in his style, accesses nonscientists to his seemingly alien world(s).”

— ALA Booklist

“David Deutsch is one of Britain’s most original thinkers. In this major work he confronts the deepest questions of existence head on, challenging traditional notions of reality with a new worldview that interweaves physics, biology, computing, and philosophy. I haven’t been so inspired since I read Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach.”

— Paul Davies, author of About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

“Deutsch provides a model of reality that is as provocative as it is complex. … An intellectually stimulating read for the science-literate and motivated layperson.… The author exhibits… a thorough knowledge of his subject matter. … In a field where scientific inquiry challenges not only our imagination but basic assumptions about our physical world, this volume provides the essential information needed for future debates.”

— Publishers Weekly