This is simply another great book on the cosmos by Brian Greene. I previously read Greene's book "The Elegant Universe" and I think at enjoyed this one even more. Greene packs as enormous wealth of information in his books. Quite frankly, it takes me considerably longer to read one of his books than most other books I read because of the volume of new information I am learning.
Greene has done a fantastic job of explaining the cosmos in this work. His explanations are detailed and lengthy enough to thoroughly convey the concepts discussed. There were many concepts that I read about in other books which were clearly delineated in this book, and I went away with a much better understanding.
Green covers a wealth of information about the cosmos such as wave probability, uncertainty, spin, entanglement, the flow and direction of time, quantum erasure, decoherence, symmetry, the various forces of nature (strong, weak, electromagnetic, gravity), Higgs field, the big bang, inflation, dark matter, dark energy, entropy, string theory, branes, time travel, the future, and much more.
If you want to get a good education about the universe we live in, I high recommend Green's books.
Author(s): Brian Greene
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 740
contents......Page 3
preface......Page 6
I REALITY ARENA......Page 11
1 Roads to Reality......Page 12
2 The Universe and the BucketT......Page 38
3 Relativity and the Absolute......Page 59
4 Entanglind Space......Page 108
II TIME AND EXPERIENCE......Page 168
5 Frozen River......Page 171
6 Chance and the Arrow......Page 191
7 Time and the Quantum......Page 236
III SPACETIME AND COSMOLOGY......Page 287
8 Of Snowflakes and Spacetime......Page 290
9 Vaporizing the Vacuum......Page 332
10 Decontructing the Bang......Page 360
11 Quanta in the Sky with Diamonds......Page 402
IV ORIGINS AND UNIFICATION......Page 428
12 The World on a String......Page 429
13 The Universe on a Brane......Page 493
V REALITY AND IMAGINATION......Page 541
14 Up in the Heavens and Down in the Earth......Page 544
15 Teleporters and Time Machines......Page 572
16 The Future of an Allusion......Page 615
Notes......Page 646
Glossary......Page 698
Suggestions for -Further Reading......Page 706
Index......Page 708