The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007-12-18 - 592 psl.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s 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 Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s 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.
 

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Roads to Reality
3
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
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The World on a String
327

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BRIAN GREENE received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He joined the physics faculty at Cornell University in 1990, was appointed to a full professorship in 1995, and in 1996 joined Columbia University where he is professor of physics and mathematics. He has lectured at both a general and a technical level in more than twenty-five countries and is widely regarded for a number of ground breaking discoveries in superstring theory. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City.

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