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Author Greene, B. (Brian), 1963-

Title The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory / Brian Greene.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, c1999.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  539.7258 G83e    ---  Available
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.
Cosmology.
ISBN 0393046885 (pbk.)

 
    
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