The Fabric Of The Cosmos: Space, Time, And The Texture Of Reality (Signed)

Brian Greene

ISBN 10: 0375412883 / ISBN 13: 9780375412882

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004

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Stated First Edition. Flat-signed by the author, Brian Greene, on the title page. Both the book and the dust jacket are in excellent condition. You can see the covers of the book in the photos. The silver lettering on the spine is nicely bright. The covers are very clean. There is one tiny black spot on the front. The cover edges and corners are in excellent shape, no rubbing on either, two tiny nicks on the rear bottom edge, one on the rear top edge, nothing much of anything. There is one speck-sized tan spot on the top page edge. Otherwise the page edges are perfectly clean. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The inside covers and end papers are white, perfectly clean, no wear. The same can be said for all of the pages in the book. Scrolling through, I am not finding any soiling. The pages are nicely bright. I'm not finding any creasing. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And the author's signature represents the only writing to be found anywhere in the book. Summing up, it has the look and feel of a new book. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. I've always had it in a fitted protective cover. Despite its white color, it looks perfectly clean (there is one speck on the front cover). There are no tears on the jacket. The flaps are also in excellent condition, perfectly clean, no tears. And summing up here, the jacket also looks new. From the jacket: 'Sparked by the trademark wit, humor, and brilliant use of analogy that had made The Elegant Universe a modern classic, Brian Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just been the surface of everyday life.'.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Fabric Of The Cosmos: Space, Time, And The Texture Of Reality (Signed)
• Éditeur: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0375412883
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780375412882
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Signed
  • Science & Technology
  • Signed Academic, Scholarly

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Synopsis

From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.

Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past?

Greene uses these questions to guide us toward modern science’s new and deeper understanding of the universe. From Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can bridge their spatial separation to instantaneously coordinate their behavior or even undergo teleportation, Greene reveals our world to be very different from what common experience leads us to believe. Focusing on the enigma of time, Greene establishes that nothing in the laws of physics insists that it run in any particular direction and that “time’s arrow” is a relic of the universe’s condition at the moment of the big bang. And in explaining the big bang itself, Greene shows how recent cutting-edge developments in superstring and M-theory may reconcile the behavior of everything from the smallest particle to the largest black hole. This startling vision culminates in a vibrant eleven-dimensional “multiverse,” pulsating with ever-changing textures, where space and time themselves may dissolve into subtler, more fundamental entities.

Sparked by the trademark wit, humor, and brilliant use of analogy that have made The Elegant Universe a modern classic, Brian Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.

With 146 illustrations

Jacket photograph by DB Image/Brand X Pictures

À propos de l?auteur

Brian Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He joined the physics faculty of Cornell University in 1990, was appointed to a full professorship in 1995, and in 1996 joined Columbia University where he is professor of physics and mathematics. He has lectured at both a general and a technical level in more than twenty-five countries and is widely regarded for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City.