The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene
Explores our scientific understanding of the universe, the 'string theory' that might hold the key to unifying nature's laws, and our continuing quest to know more. This book shows, ours may be just one universe among many, like endless reflections in a mirror.
Brian Greene's book The Hidden Reality is a tour de force of one of the most controversial areas of modern science - the possibility that there are multiple universes.. Greene's ability as a populariser has matured with each new publication and this latest offering is his best yet -- Alastair Gunn * Sky at Night *
Exciting and rewarding ... captures and engages the imagination ... Greene has a gift for elucidating big ideas * New York Times *
If extraterrestrials landed tomorrow and demanded to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing, we could do worse than to hand them a copy of this book * New York Times Book Review *
The book serves well as an introduction to the multiverse and will open up many people's eyes -- John Gribbin
Every chapter opens level after level of previously unimaginable, mind-expanding realities -- Oliver Sacks
Exciting and rewarding ... captures and engages the imagination ... Greene has a gift for elucidating big ideas * New York Times *
If extraterrestrials landed tomorrow and demanded to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing, we could do worse than to hand them a copy of this book * New York Times Book Review *
The book serves well as an introduction to the multiverse and will open up many people's eyes -- John Gribbin
Every chapter opens level after level of previously unimaginable, mind-expanding realities -- Oliver Sacks
Brian Greene is well known to many fans as a populariser of theoretical physics. He is the author of the bestselling books about string theory, The Elegant Universe, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and The Fabric of the Cosmos. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, he has taught at both Harvard and Cornell and has been Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University since 1996.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141029818 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141029811 |
| Title | The Hidden Reality |
| Author | Brian Greene |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012 |
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