The Fabric of the Cosmos
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The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
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.
BRIAN GREENE is a professor of physics and mathematics and Director of Columbia University's Center for Theoretical Physics, and is renowned for his groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. He is the author of The Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and The Hidden Reality, which have collectively spent 65 weeks on the New York Times best seller list and sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, and he has hosted two Peabody and Emmy Award winning NOVA miniseries based on his books. With producer Tracy Day, Greene co-founded the World Science Festival. He lives in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375727207 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375727205 |
| Title | The Fabric of the Cosmos |
| Author | Brian Greene |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 2005-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 592 |
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