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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... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
- - Greene discusses the nature of reality
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- Albert Einstein: Awesome mathmaticss free treatise on the current theories in physics.
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- Ernst Mach
- Scully
- Edward Witten
- Lisa
- James Clerk Maxwell
- John Schwarz
- Nathan Rosen
- Chewie
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- Isaac Newton: (1643-1727) English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian.
- Paul Steinhardt
- Alan Guth
- Oskar Klein
- Albert Camus
- Lord Kelvin
- Higgs
- Joe Polchinski
- Howard Georgi
- Martin
- Werner Heisenberg
- Niels Bohr
- Gabriele Veneziano
- Steven Weinberg
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- Boris Podolsky
- Schrodinger
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- a. Casimir
- John Bell
- Ilie
- John Wheeler
- Sheldon Glashow
- Marge
- Planck
- Ned
- David Albert
- Petr Hořava
- Roger Penrose
- Anton Zeilinger
- Abdus Salam
- Henry Tye
- Paul Davies
- Hermann Minkowski
- Andrew Strominger
- Todd Flanders
- Theodor Kaluza
- Max Jammer
- Michael Green
- Wolfgang Pauli
- Herbert Pfister
- Leonard Schiff
- Savas Dimopoulos
- Kurt Gödel
- Paul Townsend
- Tullio Weber
- Tim Maudlin
- Mr. Smithers
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
- René Descartes
- Andreas Albrecht
- Henry More
- Galileo Galilei
- Leonhard Euler
- Giancarlo Ghirardi
- Barney
- Alexei Starobinsky
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Kai Drühl
- Lester Germer
- Juan Maldacena
- Leonard Susskind
- David Deutsch
- Dennis Gabor
- Jacob Bekenstein
- George Pugh
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Kip Thorne
- Rod
- Alexander Friedmann
- Charles Bennett
- Richard Tolman
- Andrei Linde
- K. Braun
- Georges Lemaître
- Matt Visser
- Richard Feynman
- David Bohm
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Clinton Davisson
- Stephen Hawking
- Plato
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- Albert Michelson
- Aristotle
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First Sentence edit
None of the books in my father's dusty old bookcase were forbidden.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
Part I: Reality's Arena
1. Roads to Reality
2. The Universe and the Bucket
3. Relativity and the Absolute
4. Entangling Space
Part II: Time and Experience
5. The Frozen River
6. Chance and the Arrow
7. Time and the Quantum
Part III: Spacetime and Cosmology
8. Of Snowflakes and Spacetime
9. Vaporizing the Vacuum
10. Deconstructing the Bang
11. Quanta in the Sky with Diamonds
Part IV: Origins and Unification
12. The World on a String
13. The Universe on a Brane
Part V: Reality and Imagination
14. Up in the Heavens and Down in the Earth
15. Teleporters and Time Machines
16. The Future of an Allusion
Notes
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0375412883
Page Count: 569
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0375412883
Page Count: 569
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: QB982 .G74 2004
- Dewey: 523.1
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