| Record Type: |
Language materials, manuscript
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The fabric of the cosmos :/ Brian Greene. |
| Reminder of title: |
space, time, and the texture of reality / |
| Author: |
Greene, B. |
| Published: |
New York :Vintage Books, : 2005, c2004., |
| Description: |
xii, 569 p. :ill. ;21 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Pt. I. Reality's arena. Roads to reality : space, time, and why things are as they are -- The universe and the bucket : Is space a human abstraction or a physical entity? -- Relativity and the absolute : Is spacetime an Einsteinian abstraction or a physical entity? -- Entangling space : What does it mean to be separate in a quantum universe? -- Pt. II. Time and experience. The frozen river : Does time flow? -- Chance and the arrow : Does time have a direction? -- Time and the quantum : insights into time's nature from a quantum realm -- Pt. III. Spacetime and cosmology. Of snowflakes and spacetime : symmetry and the evolution of the cosmos -- Vaporizing the vacuum : heat, nothingness, and unification -- Deconstructing the bang : What banged? -- Quanta in the sky with diamonds : inflation, quantum jitters, and the arrow of time -- Pt. VI. Origins and unification. The world on a string : the fabric according to string theory -- The universe on a brane : speculations on space and time in M-theory -- Pt. V. Reality and imagination. Up in the heavens and down in the Earth : experimenting with space and time -- Teleporters and time machines : traveling through space and time -- The future of an allusion : prospects for space and time. |
| Subject: |
Cosmology - Popular works. - |
| Online resource: |
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2003058918.html |
| Online resource: |
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/2003058918.html |
| Online resource: |
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0411/2003058918.html |
| ISBN: |
0375727205 (pbk.) |