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The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory / Brian Greene.
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- ISBN: 0375708111 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780375708114 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xiii, 448 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2000.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Previously published: New York : W. W. Norton, c1999.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-428) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Edge of knowledge: Tied up with string -- Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta: Space, time, and the eye of the beholder -- Of warps and ripples -- Microscopic weirdness -- Need for a new theory: general relativity vs. quantum mechanics -- Cosmic symphony: Nothing but music: the essentials of superstring theory -- "Super" in superstrings -- More dimensions than meet the eye -- Smoking gun: experimental signatures -- 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 -- Unification in the twenty-first century: Prospects.
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