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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality Paperback – 24 Feb. 2005

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From the bestselling author of The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos takes us on an irresistible and revelatory journey through the biggest of the big questions.

What is reality? Could we exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? What are the limits of the universe?

Brian Greene has made the mysteries of space and time accessible to millions with his acclaimed writings and award-winning TV series. Now he reveals a world more beautiful and bizarre than we could have imagined, where 'dark matter' reigns, space warps and wiggles through eleven dimensions, minute particles dance, fizz and teleport across vast distances, everything is made of vibrating strings and, like an ant on a lily-pad, we may be floating on a sliver of spacetime.

Revealing new layers of reality that lie just beneath the surface of our everyday lives, this grand tour of the universe will make you look at the world in a completely new way.

'A must-read'
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'Greene takes us to the limits of space and time'
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'Sends the reader's imagination hurtling through the universe on an astonishing ride'
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Brian Greene is well known to many fans as a populariser of theoretical physics. He is the author of the bestselling books about string theory, The Elegant Universe, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and The Hidden Reality. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, he has taught at both Harvard and Cornell and has been Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University since 1996.

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Brian Greene has made the mysteries of space and time accessible to millions with his acclaimed writings and award-winning TV series. Now he reveals a world more beautiful and bizarre than we could have imagined, where 'dark matter' reigns, space warps and wiggles through eleven dimensions, minute particles dance, fizz and teleport across vast distances, everything is made of vibrating strings and, like an ant on a lily-pad, we may be floating on a sliver of spacetime.

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Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics and director of Columbia University's Center for Theoretical Physics, and is renowned for his groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. His bestselling books include The Elegant Universe, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, and The Fabric of the Cosmos.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0141011114
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1st edition (24 Feb. 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780141011110
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141011110
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.7 x 12.9 x 3.52 cm
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Brian Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

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Jack Coles
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 March 2024
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In every way excellent, and I say this when reading the book at a time in life when sleep and focus were not readily available.

I had to read the book in two significant installments, and rediscover my passion for finishing it, but not because the content was boring or slow. It is filled with incredible analogues for the reader to better understand the concepts of the physics, but it very dense, as you can imagine. On top of talking about the future of physics, and the its past, it has a really great ability to make concepts like time, relativity and gravity into very easy-to-understand topics. The best parts for me would be the conversations around time travel, and the famous split screen experiment in Quantum Physics, and the implications of what the experiment means. Many parts of what is written is mind-blowing.

I would suggest if you really wanted to digest the information it is important to take copious notes, but really, as a book which summarises its field, and explains important parts of physics to the Layman, you couldn't find a better read to bring you up to speed with all you need to know.
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Michael C. Hall
5.0 out of 5 stars Seamless Cloth...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2011
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Having finished "In Search Of Time" (D. Falk) and on the back of an increasing interest in all things Quantum, i challenged myself to tackle this on the back of Greene's reputation. I'm not scared to say that in order to get as much out of it as i could on the first read it took me a good few months, but it was time very well spent. You know it has had an impact when you find your idling moments considering key elements from the book, waiting at traffic lights and considering symmetry and such. That's a major goal achieved for a book like this i would have thought, to encourage people to challenge their thinking is a fantastic thing to achieve; in fact, it matters.

I have no physics background and found it consise, readable well structured and not at all as condesending as some books in this area may be. The fact that there is already 60 odd reviews for this book and i'm writing this should say to you that it's essential - actually, it would easily make my top ten favourite books of all time, without question. I took more away from this book than all my high school science classes combined.
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Dr. H. A. Jones
4.0 out of 5 stars A theory of (nearly) everything
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2010
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, time and the texture of reality, by Brian Greene, Penguin, 2004, 592 ff.

A theory of (nearly) everything
By Howard A. Jones

Essentially, as the title indicates, this is a book about cosmology - the nature and origin of the universe. In order to do justice to his subject in this quite extensive book, and as the subtitle suggests, the author has covered a quite huge subject area. We have Newton's Laws and Einstein's Relativity Theory, and a discussion of the incompatibility of the latter in some respects with another edifice of twentieth century physics, Quantum Theory. Then we have Superstring Theory, which offers some hope of being able to bridge the theoretical divide. Greene makes much of the arrow of time and `the defining role it plays in everyday life and its intimate link with the origin of the universe' because `[n]othing in the equations of fundamental physics shows any sign of treating one direction in time differently from the other'.

We have come to rely on science as the foundation of truth and reality. However, the author notes that `[the] overarching lesson that has emerged from scientific enquiry over the last century is that human experience is often a misleading guide to the true nature of reality': which leaves room to admit the ideas of some philosophers like Locke and Kant about the real or noumenal essence of the material world and some spiritual notions of eastern mystics about the world as maya.

The laudatory reviews printed on the back cover of this book are entirely justified and should not be dismissed as publishers' hype. The book covers some of the same ground as Hawking's seminal work for the general reader, A Brief History of Time (some 200 pages in length), but Greene's is much more extensive in its coverage and probably easier for the reader not familiar with contemporary physics: though that is not say that this is gentle bedtime reading!

This book will certainly give the little grey cells a good workout but, even with a Master's degree in physics myself, I found it fascinating and informative. There's a five-page Glossary of some of the technical terms, over 40 pages of Notes, a couple of pages of suggested Further Reading, and a comprehensive Index.

Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, UK.

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SpareOom
5.0 out of 5 stars I Failed Science With Spectacular Aplomb!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2010
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...And yet, despite the fact that maths largely eludes me, okay entirely eludes me. Although there are fluff covered wine gums that would likely achieve a better grade in physics than I, I actually almost understand this stuff! Sure I'm having to teach myself a bit of classical physics on the way, but the efforts worth it! I mean WOW!

This book is simply marvellous. Please see 'down the rabbit hole' and that marvellous tome,'In Search of Schrodinger's Cat,' for background knowledge before embarking on this if your a bit like me and struggle to programme a VCR or outwit the dog. I am eternally indebted to the likes of Brian Greene for making the incomprehensable almost comprehensible. Thank you Mr Greene, may you find the Higgs Boson, something else even more marvellous, or nothing at all which will be almost as smashing as the particle accelerator itself.
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Thadeu Antonio Furtado
5.0 out of 5 stars The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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Brian Greene é um dos melhores escritores de divulgação científica em atuação.
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Rajesh Dighe
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written
Reviewed in India on 28 November 2022
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My dad who is a physicist loved this book. Thanks a lot.
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Sandra P.
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I read on the Universe
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What a wonderfully insightful book about time and the Universe. I couldn't put it down. It was very informative. I like that the author uses a lot of easy to understand examples to make sure the reader tries to visualize difficult concepts. It definitely helped me to grasp some of the toughest subjects. I learned a lot, I highly recommend it to whoever is into physics.
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Ella
5.0 out of 5 stars A découvrir .
Reviewed in France on 30 November 2020
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Parfait état .
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5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable!
Reviewed in Mexico on 27 September 2017
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I'm only halfway, but it's one of the best books you can read to truly get a better understanding on how everything around us works and came to be. Very good analogies and recommended even for people with few or no formation on physics, astronomy, etc. Brian Greene explain very hard concepts in a very understandable manner. Very recommended.
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