Brian Greene: 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 (Vintage)

From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.

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... (read more)

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“It seems like Greene takes concepts which by all rights should be very difficult to understand and transforms them, through ridiculously well-thought-out analogies, into something for the casual reader. This is just a spectacular book for anyone interested in the current state of affairs of modern physics, and what scientists really mean when they talk about the origins of the universe.”

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noblesonk said:

“By reading this book I recapped a lot of what I learnt during my college days. it is crisp, well written, i guess will be easily understood by nonphysics folks”

posted Monday, September 10 2007

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