The fabric of the cosmos: space, time, and the texture of reality
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New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004.
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xii, 569 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.
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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.
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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0375727205, 0375412883 :
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [543]-544) and index.
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Greene, B. (2004). The fabric of the cosmos: space, time, and the texture of reality. New York, A.A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Greene, Brian, 1963-. 2004. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. New York, A.A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Greene, Brian, 1963-, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. New York, A.A. Knopf, 2004.
MLA Citation (style guide)Greene, Brian. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. New York, A.A. Knopf, 2004.
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