这本书的孕育离不开大量科学文献。其中大部分都发表于学术期刊，你可以在我的这篇学术论文中找到这些参考文献：http：//space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/technical.html。然而，还有丰富的著作尝试着向普通人解释科学的核心理念。在这些奇妙的著作中，你能继续探索我们讨论过的话题。我试着根据主要聚焦点为它们分类，但许多书都同时探讨了其他话题。其中的一个或几个并列的∫表示这是一本很学术化或数学化的书，就像餐厅菜单上的辣椒符号代表着某道菜的辣度一样。
宇宙学（第1～3章）
Adams, Fred, and Greg Laughlin.The Five Ages of the Universe. New York：The Free Press，1999.
Chown, Marcus.The Magic Furnace：The Search for the Origins of Atoms. New York：Oxford University Press，2001.
de Grasse Tyson, Neil.Death by Black Hole：And Other Cosmic Quandaries.New York：W. W.Norton&Company，2007.
Finkbeiner, Ann.A Grand and Bold Thing：An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering in a New Era of Discovery.New York：Free Press，2010.
Greene, Brian.The Fabric of the Cosmos. New York：Knopf，2004.
Hawking, Stephen.A Brief History of Time.New York：Touchstone，1993.
Kirshner, Robert P.The Extravagant Universe：Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos.Princeton：Princeton Science Library，2004.
Kragh, Helge.Cosmology and Controversy：The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe.Princeton：Princeton University Press，1996.
Krauss, Lawrence.A Universe from Nothing：Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing.New York：Free Press，2012.
Rees, Martin.Just Six Numbers：The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe.New York：BasicBooks，2000.
Rees, Martin.Our Cosmic Habitat.Princeton：Princeton University Press，2002.
Seife, Charles.Alpha and Omega：The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe.New York：Penguin Books，2004.
Singh, Simon. Big Bang：The Origin of the Universe.New York：HarperCollins，2004.
Smolin, Lee.Time Reborn：From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe.Boston：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt，2013.（本书中文简体字版已由湛庐文化策划出版）
Weinberg, Steven. The First Three Minutes：A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe.New York：BasicBooks，1993.
暴胀，第一、第二层多重宇宙（第4～5章）
Barrow, John. The Book of Universes：Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos.New York：W.W.Norton&Company，2011.
Davies, Paul.Cosmic Jackpot：Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life.New York：Houghton Mifflin，2007.
Guth, Alan.The Inflationary Universe.New York：Perseus Books Group，1997.
Linde, Andrei D.Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology.Chur, Switzerland：Harwood Academic Publishers，1990.
Steinhardt, Paul J.，and Neil Turok.Endless Universe：Beyond the Big Bang.New York：Doubleday，2007.
Susskind, Leonard.The Cosmic Landscape：String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design.New York：Little, Brown and Company，2005.
Vilenkin, Alexander.Many Worlds in One：The Search for Other Universes.New York：Hill and Wang，2006.
量子力学，第三层多重宇宙（第6～7章）
Byrne, Peter.The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III：Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family.New York：Oxford University Press，2010.
Cox, Brian, and Jeff Forshaw.The Quantum Universe（And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does）.Boston：Da Capo Press，2012.
Deutsch, David.The Beginning of Infinity：Explanations That Transform Our World.New York：Allen Lane，2012.
Deutsch, David.The Fabric of Reality.New York：Allen Lane，1997.
ʃʃ Everett, Hugh.“The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.”Ph.D.diss.，Princeton University，1957.Free download at http：//www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/pdf/dissertation.pdf.
ʃʃ Everett, Hugh.The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics，edited by Bryce S.DeWitt and Neill Graham.Princeton：Princeton University Press，1973.
ʃʃ Giulini, Domenico, and Erich Joos, Claus Kiefer, Joachim Kupsch, Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu and H.Dieter Zeh.Decoherence and the Appearance of a Classical World in Quantum Theory.Berlin：Springer，1996.
Kaiser, David.How the Hippies Saved Physics：Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival.New York：W. W.Norton&Company，2011.
ʃ Saunders, Simon, and Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent and David Wallace.Many Worlds?Everett, Quantum Theory&Reality.Oxford：Oxford University Press，2010.
多重宇宙理论概览（第5章、第7章）
Carr, Bernard J.，ed.Universe or Multiverse?Cambridge, Mass.：MIT Press，2007.
Carroll, Sean.From Eternity to Here：The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time.Oxford：Oneworld Publications，2011.
Greene, Brian.The Hidden Reality.New York：Knopf，2011.
Kaku, Michio.Parallel Worlds：A fourney Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos.New York：Anchor Books，2006.
Lewis, David.On the Plurality of Worlds.Oxford：Blackwell Publishing，1986.
意识（第8章、第10章）
Blackmore, Susan.Conversations on Consciousness：What the Best Minds Think about Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human.New York：Oxford University Press，2006.
Bostrom, Nick.Anthropic Bias：Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy.New York：Routledge，2002.
Damasio, Antonio.The Feeling of What Happens.New York：Harcourt Brace，2000.
Damasio, Antonio.Self Comes to Mind：Constructing the Conscious Brain.New York：Pantheon Books，2010.
Dennett, Daniel.Consciousness Explained.Boston：Little, Brown and Company，1992.
Hawkins, Jeff, and Sandra Blakeslee.On Intelligence.New York：Henry Holt and Company，2004.
Hut, Pier, Mark Alford and Max Tegmark.“On Math, Matter and Mind，”Foundations of Physics，January 15，2006，http：//arxiv. org/pdf/physics/0510188.pdf.
Koch, Christof.“A‘Complex'Theory of Consciousness，”Scientific American，August 18，2009，http：//www. scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-theory-of-consciousness.
Koch, Christof.The Quest for Consciousness：A Neurobiological Approach.Englewood, Col.：Roberts&Company Publishers，2004.
Kurzweil, Ray.How to Create a Mind：The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.New York：Viking Penguin，2012.（本书中文简体字版《人工智能的未来》已由湛庐文化策划出版）
Roger.The Emperor's New Mind.Oxford：Oxford University Press，1989.
Pinker, Steven.How the Mind Works.New York：W. W.Norton and Company，1997.（本书中文简体字版《心智探奇》已由湛庐文化策划出版）
Tononi, Giulio.“Consciousness as Integrated Information：A Provisional Manifesto，”The Biological Bulletin，2008，http：//www. biolbull.org/content/215/3/216.full.
Tononi, Giulio.Phi：A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul.New York：Pantheon Books，2012.
Velmans, Max, and Susan Schneider, eds.The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness.Malden, Mass.：Blackwell Publishing，2007.
数学、计算、复杂性（第9～11章）
Barrow, John D.Pi in the Sky.Oxford：Clarendon Press，1992.
Barrow, John D.，Theories of Everything.New York：Ballantine Books，1991.
Chaitin, Gregory J.Algorithmic Information Theory.（Cambridge：Cambridge University Press，1987.
ʃ Davies, Paul.The Mind of God.New York：Touchstone，1993.
ʃ Goodstein, Reuben L.Constructive Formalism：Essays on the Foundations of Mathematics.Leicester：Leister University College Press，1951.
Hersh, Reuben.What Is Mathematics, Really?Oxford：Oxford University Press，1999.
Levin, Janna.A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines.New York：Anchor Books，2007.
Livio, Mario.Is God a Mathematician?. New York：Simon&Schuster，2009.
Lloyd, Seth.Programming the Universe：A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos.New York：Vintage Books，2007.
Rucker, Rudy.Infinity and the Mind.Boston：Birkh user，1982.
Standish, Russell K.Theory of Nothing.Charleston, S. C.：BookSurge，2006.
Wolfram, Stephen.A New Kind of Science.New York：Wolfram Media，2002.
未来生活（结语）
Bostrom, Nick, and Milan Cirkovi, eds.Global Catastrophic Risks.Oxford：Oxford University Press，2008.
Davies, Paul.The Eerie Silence：Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence.New York：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt，2011.
Drexler, K. Eric.Engines of Creation：The Coming Era of Nanotechnology.London：Fourth Estate，1985.
Dyson, Freeman.#A Many-Colored Glass：Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe.#Charlottesville：University of Virginia Press，2007.
Fuller, R. Buckminster.Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.Buckminster Fuller Institute, http：//bfi.org/about-bucky/resources/books/operating-manual-spaceship-earth.
Gribbin, John R.Alone in the Universe：Why Our Planet Is Unique.Hoboken, N. J.：John Wiley&Sons，2011.
Kurzweil, Ray.The Age of Spiritual Machines：When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence.New York：Viking，1999.
Kurzweil, Ray.The Singularity Is Near：When Humans Transcend Biology.New York：Viking，2005.
Kurzweil, Ray, and Terry Grossman.Transcend：Nine Steps to Living Well Forever.New York：Viking，2010.
Moravec, Hans.Robot：Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind.Oxford：Oxford Uni-versity Press，1999.
Rees, Martin.Our Final Hour：A Scientist's Warning.New York：Perseus Books，1997.
Sagan, Carl.Pale Blue Dot：A Vision of the Human Future in Space.New York：Ran-dom House，1997.
基础物理学、弦理论、量子引力
Barbour, Julian.The End of Time：The Next Revolution in Physics.Oxford：Oxford University Press，1999.
ʃ Barrow, John D.，and Frank J.Tipler.The Anthropic Cosmological Principle.Oxford：Clarendon Press，1986.
Carroll, Sean.The Particle at the End of the Universe：How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World.New York：Dutton，2012.
ʃ Einstein, Albert.Relativity：The Special and General Theory.London：Really Simple Media，2011.
Feynman, Richard, and Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands.The Feynman Lectures on Physics.3 vols. New York：Addison-Wesley，1964.
Gamow, George.Mr. Tompkins in Paperback.Cambridge：Cambridge University Press，1940.
Greene, Brian.The Elegant Universe.New York：W. W.Norton and Company，2003.
Musser, George.The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory.New York：Penguin Group，1998.
Penrose, Roger.The Road to Reality：A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe.New York：Knopf，2005.
Randall, L isa.Warped Passages：Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions.New York：Ecco，2005.（该书中文简体字版《弯曲的旅行》已由湛庐文化策划出版）
Smolin, Lee.Three Roads to Quantum Gravity.New York：BasicBooks，2001.
Smolin, Lee.The Trouble with Physics：The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next.Boston：Houghton Mifflin，2006.
Susskind, Leonard.The Black Hole War：My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics.New York：Little, Brown and Company，2008.
Weinberg, Steven L.Dreams of a Final Theory：The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature.New York：Pantheon，1992.
Wiener, Eugene P.Symmetries and Reflections.Cambridge, Mass.：MIT Press，1967.
Wilczek, Frank.The Lightness of Being：Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces.New York：BasicBooks，2008.
ʃʃ Zeh, H.Dieter.The Physical Basis of the Direction of Time.4th ed.Berlin：Springer，2002.
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