The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

by Brian Greene

was perfectly happy with a fundamental theory that did). According to Everett, the Many Worlds approach accommodated both positions, the difference between them merely being one of perspective. Einstein’s perspective is the mathematical one in which the grand probability wave of all particles relentlessly evolves by the Schrödinger equation, with chance playing absolutely no role.* I like to picture Einstein soaring high above the many worlds of Many Worlds, watching as Schrödinger’s equation fully dictates how the entire panorama unfolds, and happily concluding that even though quantum mechanics is correct, God doesn’t play dice. Bohr’s perspective is that of an inhabitant in one of the worlds, also happy, using probabilities to explain, with stupendous precision, those observations to which his limited perspective gives him access.