Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and The Texture of Reality (Record no. 220510)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0375412883
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Transcribing agency AL
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Edition number 23
Classification number 523.1
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Personal name Brian Greene
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Title Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and The Texture of Reality
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Alfred A Knopf
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2004
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Extent xii,569 p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 24x16 cm.
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Summary, etc. As a boy, Brian Greene read Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus and was transformed. Camus, in Greene's paraphrase, insisted that the hero triumphs "by relinquishing everything beyond immediate experience." After wrestling with this idea, however, Greene rejected Camus and realized that his true idols were physicists; scientists who struggled "to assess life and to experience the universe at all possible levels, not just those that happened to be accessible to our frail human senses." His driving question in The Fabric of the Cosmos, then, is fundamental: "What is reality?" Over sixteen chapters, he traces the evolving human understanding of the substrate of the universe, from classical physics to ten-dimensional M-Theory.<br/>Assuming an audience of non-specialists, 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. For the most part, he succeeds. His language reflects a deep passion for science and a gift for translating concepts into poetic images. When explaining, for example, the inability to see the higher dimensions inherent in string theory, Greene writes: "We don't see them because of the way we see…like an ant walking along a lily pad…we could be floating within a grand, expansive, higher-dimensional space."<br/>For Greene, Rhodes Scholar and professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, speculative science is not always as thorough and successful. His discussion of teleportation, for example, introduces and then quickly tables a valuable philosophical probing of identity. The paradoxes of time travel, however, are treated with greater depth, and his vision of life in a three-brane universe is compelling and--to use his description for quantum reality--"weird."<br/>In the final pages Greene turns from science fiction back to the fringes of science fact, and he returns with rigor to frame discoveries likely to be made in the coming decades. "We are, most definitely, still wandering in the jungle," he concludes. Thanks to Greene, though, some of the underbrush has been cleared. --Patrick O'Kelley
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Astronomy
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Cosmology
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Topical term or geographic name entry element String Models
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Quamtum
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Personal name GREENE (Brian)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Physics St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   523.1 GREE GF03669 11/11/2021 https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/science_and_technology/The%20Fabric%20of%20the%20Cosmos%20-%20Space,%20Time,%20and%20the%20Texture%20of%20Reality%20(Brian%20Greene).pdf 11/11/2021 George Fernandes Collections