The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

Author: Brian Greene

Publisher: Alfred A Knopf; Reprint edition (2005/2/8)

平装: 592 pages

Language: 英语

ISBN: 0375727205

EAN: 9780375727207

Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 2.5 x 20.3 cm

Item Weight: 953 g

内容简介

From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, 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? 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 instantaneously coordinate their behavior, 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.