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Greene, B. 1963-

The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality / Brian Greene. - London : Penguin, 2005. ©2004. - xii, 569 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

First published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Reality's Arena
1. Roads to Reality
2. The Universe and the Bucket
3. Relativity and the Absolute
4. Entangling Space
pt. II. Time and Experience
5. The Frozen River
6. Chance and the Arrow
7. Time and the Quantum
pt. III. Spacetime and Cosmology
8. Of Snowflakes and Spacetime
9. Vaporizing the Vacuum
10. Deconstructing the Bang
11. Quanta in the Sky with Diamonds
pt. IV. Origins and Unification
12. The World on a String
13. The Universe on a Brane
pt. V. Reality and Imagination
14. Up in the Heavens and Down in the Earth
15. Teleporters and Time Machines
16. The Future of an Allusion

We are living in what is often referred to as 'the golden age of cosmology'. The study of string theory has led to progress being made towards the discovery of the Theory of Everything. This book explains how far we have come and speculates on how far we still have to go.

ISBN: 9780141011110 (pbk.) 0141011114 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cosmology--Popular works.

Dewey Class. No.: 524.8 / GRE