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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
B Greene |
| ISBN: | 0375708111 9780375708114 |
| OCLC Number: | 42072163 |
| Notes: | Previously published: New York : W. W. Norton, c1999. |
| Description: | xiii, 448 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | The edge of knowledge. Tied up with string -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Responsibility: | Brian Greene. |
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