The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory / Brian Greene.
2003
QC794.6.S85 G74 2003
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Title
The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory / Brian Greene.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0393058581
9780393058581
9780393058581
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003.
Language
English
Description
xv, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
QC794.6.S85 G74 2003
System Control No.
(OCoLC)53113920
Summary
Relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind the search for the string theory--the ultimate theory which scientists believe is capable of describing all physical phenomena, large and small; and discusses how the theory is impacting human understanding of space and time.
Note
Originally published: 1999. With additional preface.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-428) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
pt. 1. Edge of knowledge
ch. 1. Tied up with string
pt. 2. Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta
ch. 2. Space, time, and the eye of the beholder
ch. 3. Of warps and ripples
ch. 4. Microscopic weirdness
ch. 5. Need for a new theory : general relativity vs. quantum mechanics
pt. 3. Cosmic symphony
ch. 6. Nothing but music : the essentials of superstring theory
ch. 7. "Super" in superstrings
ch. 8. More dimensions than meet the eye
ch. 9. Smoking gun : experimental signatures
pt. 4. String theory and the fabric of spacetime
ch. 10. Quantum geometry
ch. 11. Tearing the fabric of space
ch. 12. Beyond strings : in search of m-theory
ch. 13. Black holes : a string/m-theory perspective
ch. 14. Reflections on cosmology
pt. 5. Unification in the twenty-first century
ch. 15. Prospects.
ch. 1. Tied up with string
pt. 2. Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta
ch. 2. Space, time, and the eye of the beholder
ch. 3. Of warps and ripples
ch. 4. Microscopic weirdness
ch. 5. Need for a new theory : general relativity vs. quantum mechanics
pt. 3. Cosmic symphony
ch. 6. Nothing but music : the essentials of superstring theory
ch. 7. "Super" in superstrings
ch. 8. More dimensions than meet the eye
ch. 9. Smoking gun : experimental signatures
pt. 4. String theory and the fabric of spacetime
ch. 10. Quantum geometry
ch. 11. Tearing the fabric of space
ch. 12. Beyond strings : in search of m-theory
ch. 13. Black holes : a string/m-theory perspective
ch. 14. Reflections on cosmology
pt. 5. Unification in the twenty-first century
ch. 15. Prospects.
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