The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of RealityKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007-12-18 - 592 psl. NATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of the worlds leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes an astonishing ride through the universe (The New York Times) that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newtons unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einsteins fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world. |
Turinys
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The Universe and the Bucket | 23 |
Relativity and the Absolute | 39 |
Entangling Space | 77 |
The Frozen River | 127 |
Chance and the Arrow | 143 |
Time and the Quantum | 177 |
Of Snowflakes and Spacetime | 219 |
The Universe on a Brane | 376 |
Up in the Heavens and Down in the Earth | 415 |
Teleporters and Time Machines | 437 |
The Future of an Allusion | 470 |
Notes | 495 |
Glossary | 537 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 543 |
The World on a String | 327 |
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The Fabric of the Cosmos Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality Brian Greene Trumpų ištraukų rodinys - 2004 |
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