The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Hardcover

Greene, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393046885 ISBN 13: 9780393046885

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Physicists and mathematicians throughout the world are working on one of the most ambitious theories ever proposed: superstring theory. String theory, as it is often called, is the key to the Unified Field Theory that eluded Einstein for more than 30 years. Finally, the century-old antagonism between the large and the small - General Relativity and Quantum Theory - is resolved. String theory proclaims that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe, from the frantic dancing of of subatomic quarks to the swirling of galaxies, are reflections of one grand physical principle and manifestations of one single entity: microscopically tiny vibrating loops of energy, a billionth of a billionth the size of an atom. In this work, Brian Greene relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind 20th-century physics' search for a theory of everything. Through the use of metaphor and analogy, this work makes some of the most sophisticated concepts accessible, aiming to bring the reader closer to an understanding of how the universe works.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393046885
• ISBN 13: 9780393046885
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar