The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
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1st ed.
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xii, 569 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newton?s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein?s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics? entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world."--Amazon.com.

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