Description |
xiii, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-428) and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Subject |
Superstring theories.
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Cosmology.
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ISBN |
0393046885 (pbk.) |
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