OL7920354W Page_number_confidence 94.07 Pages 474 Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Printer DYMO_LabelWriter_450_Turbo Republisher_date 20180106113713 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1018 Scandate 20180105083529 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Tts_version v1. Urn:lcp:elegantuniverses0000gree:epub:df797aa5-dd4f-4bf8-bcfd-f7f1d7e511e9 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier elegantuniverses0000gree Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t23c2g469 Invoice 1213 Isbn 0393046885ĩ780375708114 Lccn 98025695 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary_edition Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, 1999Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:03:40 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA1162805 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set china External-identifier Unification in the twenty-first century - Prospects String theory and the fabric of spacetime - Quantum geometry - Tearing the fabric of space - Beyond strings : in search of m-theory - Black holes : a string/m-theory perspective - Reflections on cosmology - pt. The cosmic symphony - Nothing but music : the essentials of superstring theory - The 'super' in superstrings - More dimensions than meet the eye - The smoking gun : experimental signatures - pt. The dilemma of space, time, and the quanta - Space, time, and the eye of the beholder - Of warps and ripples - Microscopic weirdness - The need for a new theory : general relativity vs. The edge of knowledge - Tied up with string - pt. Physicist Brian Greene relates the scientific story behind the research on string theory, which reveals a vision of the universe with new dimensions hidden within the fabric of space, black holes transmuting into elementary particles, rips and punctures in the space-time continuum, and gigantic universes interchangeable with minuscule ones

He has been a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University since 1996. Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-428) and index Brian Greene is an American theoretical physicist and one of the best-known string theorists.

The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene