The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory / Brian Greene.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [1999]Description: xiii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0393046885
- 9780393046885
- 0393058581
- 9780393058581
- 0375708111
- 9780375708114
- 9780393338102
- 039333810X
- 539.7/258 21
- QC794.6.S85 G75 1999
- 33.50
- 39.30
- UB 5180
- Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, 1999.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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BOOK | NCAR Library Mesa Lab | QC794.6 .S85 .G75 1999 | 1 | Available | 50583020009530 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-428) and index.
pt. 1. The edge of knowledge -- Tied up with string -- pt. 2. The dilemma of space, time, and the quanta -- Space, time, and the eye of the beholder -- Of warps and ripples -- Microscopic weirdness -- The need for a new theory : general relativity vs. quantum mechanics -- pt. 3. The cosmic symphony -- Nothing but music : the essentials of superstring theory -- The "super" in superstrings -- More dimensions than meet the eye -- The smoking gun : experimental signatures -- pt. 4. 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 -- pt. 5. Unification in the twenty-first century -- Prospects.
Physicist Brian Greene relates the scientific story behind the research on string theory, which reveals a vision of the universe with new dimensions hidden within the fabric of space, black holes transmuting into elementary particles, rips and punctures in the space-time continuum, and gigantic universes interchangeable with minuscule ones.
Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, 1999.