The Fabric of the Cosmos

English

Series: Vintage Ser.

ISBN: 0307428532

EAN: 9780307428530

Category: Science / Cosmology

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 12/18/2007

Synopsis: From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe 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.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Awards: New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null 

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The Fabric of the Cosmos

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Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 592