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The fabric of the cosmos

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Penguin Books, 2005Description: xii, 569 p. ill. 20 cm.ISBN:
  • 9780141011110
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Contents:
Includes index. TOC:-- Part I: Reality's Arena-- 1. Roads to Reality-- 2. The Universe and the Bucket-- 3. Relativity and the Absolute-- 4. Entangling Space-- Part II: Time and Experience-- 5. The Frozen River-- 6. Chance and the Arrow-- 7. Time and the Quantum-- Part III: Spacetime and Cosmology-- 8. Of Snowflakes and Spacetime-- 9. Vaporizing the Vacuum-- 10. Deconstructing the Bang-- 11. Quanta in the Sky with Diamonds-- Part IV: Origins and Unification-- 12. The World on a String-- 13. The Universe on a Brane-- Part V: Reality and Imagination-- 14. Up in the Heavens and Down in the Earth-- 15. Teleporters and Time Machines-- 16. The Future of an Allusion--
Summary: What is reality? Could we exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? What are the limits of the universe? ; ; Brian Greene has made the mysteries of space and time accessible to millions with his acclaimed writings and award-winning TV series. Now he reveals a world more beautiful and bizarre than we could have imagined, where 'dark matter' reigns, space warps and wiggles through eleven dimensions, minute particles dance, fizz and teleport across vast distances, everything is made of vibrating strings and, like an ant on a lily-pad, we may be floating on a sliver of spacetime. ; ; Revealing new layers of reality that lie just beneath the surface of our everyday lives, this grand tour of the universe will make you look at the world in a completely new way.
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Includes index. TOC:-- Part I: Reality's Arena-- 1. Roads to Reality-- 2. The Universe and the Bucket-- 3. Relativity and the Absolute-- 4. Entangling Space-- Part II: Time and Experience-- 5. The Frozen River-- 6. Chance and the Arrow-- 7. Time and the Quantum-- Part III: Spacetime and Cosmology-- 8. Of Snowflakes and Spacetime-- 9. Vaporizing the Vacuum-- 10. Deconstructing the Bang-- 11. Quanta in the Sky with Diamonds-- Part IV: Origins and Unification-- 12. The World on a String-- 13. The Universe on a Brane-- Part V: Reality and Imagination-- 14. Up in the Heavens and Down in the Earth-- 15. Teleporters and Time Machines-- 16. The Future of an Allusion--

What is reality? Could we exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? What are the limits of the universe? ; ; Brian Greene has made the mysteries of space and time accessible to millions with his acclaimed writings and award-winning TV series. Now he reveals a world more beautiful and bizarre than we could have imagined, where 'dark matter' reigns, space warps and wiggles through eleven dimensions, minute particles dance, fizz and teleport across vast distances, everything is made of vibrating strings and, like an ant on a lily-pad, we may be floating on a sliver of spacetime. ; ; Revealing new layers of reality that lie just beneath the surface of our everyday lives, this grand tour of the universe will make you look at the world in a completely new way.

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