The Fabric of the Cosmos

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• The Fabric of the Cosmos By Brian Greene

  A physicist's tour of the universeAs the world enters what many consider to be the golden age of cosmology, physicist Brian Greene once again explores the secrets of the universe in an accessible new book that even the non-scientist can appreciate. T ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

• Braneworlds

  Particle physics and cosmology are mysterious subjects, embracing such strange concepts as ‘dark energy’, ‘braneworlds’ and ‘wormholes’ – terms people may have heard of or perhaps read about, but still don’t really understand. Brian Greene, a leading ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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  Picked this book from the shelve last evening -- wanted to know a thing or two about String Theory. Interested in this concept after reading Jiang's (江) comics from Sunday Ming Pao a couple of months ago. Basically, string theory delves into the smallest part that lie in an atom -- strings are ene ... (continue)

  Picked this book from the shelve last evening -- wanted to know a thing or two about String Theory. Interested in this concept after reading Jiang's (江) comics from Sunday Ming Pao a couple of months ago. Basically, string theory delves into the smallest part that lie in an atom -- strings are energy strands that vibrate in different frequencies. This theory lies the promise in uniting quantum mechanics and general relativity -- becoming a "Theory of Everything" -- describing matters of small and big. Those strings are infinitesimally small -- which can't be seen directly and empirically. I think one of the footnotes on String Theory is quite gripping -- claiming someone should not reject a theory on the basis that the premise/object being discussed cannot be directly observable or refutable. For example, Greene says the proof of atoms exists is shown in Brownian motion, or the proof of black holes exists is through observing gas being sucked into black holes -- but not seeing atoms or black holes themselves.

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  Search Serg said on May 7, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  I have NEVER seen a mistake in a book like in this one. Oh, it was no fault of the author, but rather the printer. Pages 17-48 are missing. Really. Not torn out, just never there to begin with. No wonder I was having trouble understanding it.

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  KyotoCutie said on Mar 29, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  lucid and thought provoking. reminds me of a debate about time travel years ago.....

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  Xtalfire said on Mar 22, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  Greene's books never fail to entertain and educate all audiences. His popular level books take readers with no scientific training into the frontier world of string theory.

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  audioreader said on Aug 15, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 592 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0141011114
• ISBN-13: 9780141011110
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Feb 24, 2005
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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