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The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality
- Title
- The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality / Brian Greene.
- Author
- Greene, Brian, 1963-
- Publication
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004.
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- Description
- xii, 569 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- From one of the world's leading physicists comes a grand tour of the universe that makes readers look at space, time, and the texture of reality in a completely different way. 146 illustrations.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [543]-544) and index.
- Contents
- Part 1: Reality's arena -- Part 2: Time and experience -- Part 3: Spacetime and cosmology -- Part 4: Origins and unification -- Part 5: Reality and imagination.
- Roads to reality : space, time, and why things are as they are -- The universe and the bucket : Is space a human abstraction or a physical entity? -- Relativity and the absolute : Is spacetime an Einsteinian abstraction or a physical entity? -- Entangling space : What does it mean to be separate in a quantum universe? -- The frozen river : Does time flow? -- Chance and the arrow : Does time have a direction? -- Time and the quantum : insights into time's nature from a quantum realm -- Of snowflakes and spacetime : symmetry and the evolution of the cosmos -- Vaporizing the vacuum : heat, nothingness, and unification -- Deconstructing the bang : What banged? -- Quanta in the sky with diamonds : inflation, quantum jitters, and the arrow of time -- The world on a string : the fabric according to string theory -- The universe on a brane : speculations on space and time in M-theory -- Up in the heavens and down in the Earth : experimenting with space and time -- Teleporters and time machines : traveling through space and time -- The future of an allusion : prospects for space and time.
- Call Number
- JSE 04-657
- ISBN
- 0375412883
- 0375727205 (trade)
- LCCN
- 2003058918
- OCLC
- 52854030
- Author
- Greene, Brian, 1963-
- Title
- The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality / Brian Greene.
- Imprint
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [543]-544) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JSE 04-657