Sometimes The Probabilities Are Very Close To

I Have Been Interested In Phenomena Involving Complexity, Diversity And Evolution Since I Was A Young Boy.

Three Principles - The Conformability Of Nature To Herself, The Applicability Of The Criterion Of Simplicity, And The Utility Of Certain Parts Of Mathematics In Describing Physical Reality - Are Thus Consequences Of The Underlying Law Of The Elementary Particles And Their Interactions. Those Three Principles Need Not Be Assumed As Separate Metaphysical Postulates. Instead, They Are Emergent Properties Of The Fundamental Laws Of Physics.

If I Have Seen Further Than Others, It Is Because I Am Surrounded By Dwarfs.

Hugh Everett's Work Has Been Described By Many People In Terms Of Many Worlds, The Idea Being That Every One Of The Various Alternative Histories, Branching Histories, Is Assigned Some Sort Of Reality.

What I Try To Do In The Book Is To Trace The Chain Of Relationships Running From Elementary Particles, Fundamental Building Blocks Of Matter Everywhere In The Universe, Such As Quarks, All The Way To Complex Entities, And In Particular Complex Adaptive System Like Jaguars.