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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality

Door Brian Greene

Categorie
Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer
#350133-ZB3
Titel
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality
Auteur
Greene, Brian
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Allen Lane
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
0713996773
ISBN13
9780713996777
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, transparent dust jacket, some b/w illustrations, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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.

Assuming an audience of non-special... (Lees verder)ists, 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."
Pagina's
569
Conditie
Redelijk — Dust jacket severly damaged at side edge.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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