| Description |
xvi, 448 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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Cosmology. (OCoLC)fst00880600
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Superstring theories. (OCoLC)fst01139037
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| ISBN |
0375708111 |
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9780375708114 |
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0613250028 |
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9780613250023 |
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