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The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory
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The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory

Author: B Greene
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2000.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Vintage Books edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
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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