TY - BOOK AU - Greene,Brian TI - The fabric of the cosmos: space, time, and the texture of reality SN - 0375727205 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Booksc KW - Cosmology KW - Popular works N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [543]-544) and index; Part 1: Reality's arena -- Part 2: Time and experience -- Part 3: Spacetime and cosmology -- Part 4: Origins and unification -- Part 5: Reality and imagination; 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? -- 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 -- 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 -- The world on a string : the fabric according to string theory -- The universe on a brane : speculations on space and time in M-theory -- 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2003058 918.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/2003 058918.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0411 /2003058918.html ER -