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The Elegant Universe : : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Greene, Brian 1963- Book - 2003 Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Physics / Greene, Brian 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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Originally published: 1999. With additional pref.
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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0393058581
039333810X
9780393058581

SUBJECTS
Superstring theories.
Cosmology.