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

Space and time form the fabric from the cosmos. However they remain among the most mystical of concepts. Is usually space an entity? How come time have got a direction? Could the universe exist without space and period? Can we travel to the past?

Greene uses these questions to guide us toward contemporary science’s new and deeper understanding of the about The Fabric from the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Consistency of Reality world. From Newton’s unchanging world where space and period are total, to Einstein’s liquid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled industry where vastly distant items can bridge their spatial parting to instantaneously coordinate their behavior or even undergo teleportation, Greene reveals the world to be very different from what common encounter 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 which “time’s arrow” can be a relic from the universe’s condition at the moment from the big bang. And in detailing the best bang itself, Greene displays how latest cutting-edge advancements in superstring and M-theory may reconcile the behavior of everything from the smallest particle to the largest black opening. This startling eyesight culminates in a captivating eleven-dimensional “multiverse,” pulsating with ever-changing textures, where space and period themselves may dissolve into subtler, even more fundamental entities.

Sparked with the trademark wit, humor, and brilliant usage of analogy which have made The Elegant World a modern classic, Brian Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the brand new levels of reality that modern physics provides discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.

With 146 illustrations

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