:superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Brian Greene
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
2nd Vintage Books ed.
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New York
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: Vintage Books,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, c2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvi, 447 p. , ill. , 21 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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Previously published: New York : W. W. Norton, c1999.
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"Preface to the Second Edition", p. ix.
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Electronic
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-428) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Edge of knowledge: Tied up with string -- Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta: Space, time, and the eye of the beholder -- Of warps and ripples -- Microscopic weirdness -- Need for a new theory: general relativity vs. quantum mechanics -- Cosmic symphony: Nothing but music: the essentials of superstring theory -- "Super" in superstrings -- More dimensions than meet the eye -- Smoking gun: experimental signatures -- String theory and the fabric of spacetime: Quantum geometry -- Tearing the fabric of space -- Beyond strings: in search of M-theory -- Black holes: a string/M-theory perspective -- Reflections on cosmology -- Unification in the twenty-first century: Prospects.