ISBN10: 0375727205, ISBN13: 9780375727207, [publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York] Softcover Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of the worlds leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes an astonishing ride through the universe (The New York Times) 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 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 Newtons unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einsteins 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. From one of the world's leading physicists comes a grand tour of the universe that makes readers look at space, time, and the texture of reality in a completely different way. 146 illustrations. Shipping may be from our Sydney, ...
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Vintage. Paperback. 8-Feb-05 Vintage ISBN 0375727205 9780375727207 [US]