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090 _aQB 982 .G74 2005
100 1 _aGreene, Brian,
_d1963-
245 1 4 _aThe fabric of the cosmos :
_bspace, time, and the texture of reality /
_cBrian Greene.
250 _a1st Vintage Books ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bVintage Booksc,
_c2005.
300 _axii, 569 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [543]-544) and index.
505 0 _aPart 1: Reality's arena -- Part 2: Time and experience -- Part 3: Spacetime and cosmology -- Part 4: Origins and unification -- Part 5: Reality and imagination.
505 0 _aRoads 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.
650 0 _aCosmology
_vPopular works.
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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856 4 2 _3Sample text
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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