The Fabric of the Cosmos (Magill’s Literary Annual 2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Greene
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: History of science and science
- Time of Work: From the seventeenth century to 2004
- Principal Characters: Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Edward Witten
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Science and technology
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Science or scientists, Twenty-first century, Time travel, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Sixteenth century, Space and time, Time, Physics or physicists, Space sciences
The reader who has finished The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality is left with a sense of fascination and bewilderment. Author and physicist Brian Greene seeks to explain to the average reader the fundamentals of space and time and how they interconnect to create the sum total that is the universe itself. Greene also asks questions usually only undertaken by philosophers, theologians (and other scientists): Did something exist before the universe itself?
To tackle these issues, Greene divides his book into five parts. In the first part, he...
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