The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality

Greene, B. (Brian) 1963- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0375727205 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0375412883
ISBN: 9780375727207 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780375412882
Physical Description: xii, 569 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
print
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [543]-544) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Roads to reality : space, time, and why things are as they are -- The universe and the bucket : Is space a human abstraction or a physical entity? -- Relativity and the absolute : Is spacetime an Einsteinian abstraction or a physical entity? -- Entangling space : What does it mean to be separate in a quantum universe? -- The frozen river : Does time flow? -- Chance and the arrow : Does time have a direction? -- Time and the quantum : insights into time's nature from a quantum realm -- Of snowflakes and spacetime : symmetry and the evolution of the cosmos -- Vaporizing the vacuum : heat, nothingness, and unification -- Deconstructing the bang : What banged? -- Quanta in the sky with diamonds : inflation, quantum jitters, and the arrow of time -- The world on a string : the fabric according to string theory -- The universe on a brane : speculations on space and time in M-theory -- Up in the heavens and down in the Earth : experimenting with space and time -- Teleporters and time machines : traveling through space and time -- The future of an allusion : prospects for space and time.