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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52854030 Title: The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality Author: B Greene Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004. ISBN/ISSN: 0375412883 9780375412882 0375727205 9780375727207 OCLC:52854030

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The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality

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The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality

Author:	B Greene
Publisher:	New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? CAn we travel to the past?
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	B Greene Find more information about:
ISBN:	0375412883 9780375412882 0375727205 9780375727207
OCLC Number:	52854030
Description:	xii, 569 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	Part 1: Reality's arena -- Part 2: Time and experience -- Part 3: Spacetime and cosmology -- Part 4: Origins and unification -- Part 5: Reality and imagination. Roads to reality : space, time, and why things are as they are -- The universe and the bucket : Is space a human abstraction or a physical entity? -- Relativity and the absolute : Is spacetime an Einsteinian abstraction or a physical entity? -- Entangling space : What does it mean to be separate in a quantum universe? -- The frozen river : Does time flow? -- Chance and the arrow : Does time have a direction? -- Time and the quantum : insights into time's nature from a quantum realm -- Of snowflakes and spacetime : symmetry and the evolution of the cosmos -- Vaporizing the vacuum : heat, nothingness, and unification -- Deconstructing the bang : What banged? -- Quanta in the sky with diamonds : inflation, quantum jitters, and the arrow of time -- The world on a string : the fabric according to string theory -- The universe on a brane : speculations on space and time in M-theory -- Up in the heavens and down in the Earth : experimenting with space and time -- Teleporters and time machines : traveling through space and time -- The future of an allusion : prospects for space and time.
Responsibility:	Brian Greene.
More information:	Contributor biographical information Sample text Publisher description

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Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? CAn we travel to the past?

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