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

Greene, Brian

ISBN 10: 0393046885 / ISBN 13: 9780393046885

Verlag: W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 1999

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Signed by Greene in blue pen on title page. Light wear to edges of dust jacket. 1cm closed tear to head of spine panel. Light rubbing to extremities of boards, head of spine lightly bumped. Pages clean. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7136

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Titel: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden ...

Verlag: W.W. Norton and Company, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1999

Einband: Hardcover, 448 pages

Zustand: Very good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

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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.