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100 1 $aGreene, B.$q(Brian),$d1963-
245 14 $aThe fabric of the cosmos :$bspace, time, and the texture of reality /$cBrian Greene.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bA.A. Knopf,$c2004.
300 $axii, 569 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [543]-544) and index.
505 0 $aPart 1: Reality's arena -- 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? -- Part 2: Time and experience -- 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 -- Part 3: Spacetime and cosmology -- 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 -- Part 4: Origins and unification -- The world on a string : the fabric according to string theory -- The universe on a brane : speculations on space and time in M-theory -- Part 5: Reality and imagination -- 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.
650 0 $aCosmology$vPopular works.
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