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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
(2000)
Today physicists and mathematicians throughout the world are
feverishly working on one of the most ambitious theories ever proposed:
superstring theory. String theory, as it is often called, is the key to the
Unified Field Theory that eluded Einstein for more than thirty years.
Finally, the century-old antagonism between the large and the small-General
Relativity and Quantum Theory-is resolved. String theory proclaims that all
of the wondrous happenings in the universe, from the frantic dancing of
subatomic quarks to the majestic swirling of heavenly galaxies, are
reflections of one grand physical principle and manifestations of one single
entity: microscopically tiny vibrating loops of energy, a billionth of a
billionth the size of an atom. In this brilliantly articulated and
refreshingly clear book, Greene relates the scientific story and the human
struggle behind twentieth-century physics' search for a theory of
everything.
Through the masterful use of metaphor and analogy, The Elegant Universe
makes some of the most sophisticated concepts ever contemplated viscerally
accessible and thoroughly entertaining, bringing us closer than ever to
understanding how the universe works.
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004)
Greene uses these questions to guide us toward modern science’s new and
deeper understanding of the universe. 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 bridge their spatial separation to instantaneously coordinate
their behavior or even undergo teleportation, Greene reveals our world to be
very different from what common experience leads us to believe. Focusing on
the enigma of time, Greene establishes that nothing in the laws of physics
insists that it run in any particular direction and that “time’s arrow” is a
relic of the universe’s condition at the moment of the big bang. And in
explaining the big bang itself, Greene shows how recent cutting-edge
developments in superstring and M-theory may reconcile the behavior of
everything from the smallest particle to the largest black hole. This
startling vision culminates in a vibrant eleven-dimensional “multiverse,”
pulsating with ever-changing textures, where space and time themselves may
dissolve into subtler, more fundamental entities.
Sparked by the trademark wit, humor, and brilliant use of analogy that have
made The Elegant Universe a modern classic, Brian 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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