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Title: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene ISBN: 0-375-41288-3 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 10 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (50 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: No Wrinkles Here
Comment: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene is a wonderful addition to anyone's cosmological library. Not light reading, The Fabric of the Cosmos stirs the imagination and is worth the effort it takes to read it.
Brian Greene is not new to trying to make modern science understandable to the lay reader. His prior effort, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory spent several weeks on the New York Times best seller list. While the Elegant Universe was readable to someone without much training in science, it took some study and reflection to try and grasp some of Greene's explanations. The Fabric of the Cosmos is similar to The Elegant Universe in that regard. You won't be able to cruise through it like a Grisham novel.
There are some interesting discussions in The Fabric of the Cosmos. Why, for example, does time apparently run in only one direction (Chapter 6)? Or, what went bang when the big bang banged (Chapter 10)? He devotes all of Chapter 15 to the discussion of time travel and the use of teleporters as they relate to modern physics. It is this willingness on Greene's part ot reach out to the common reader in ways that are interesting to us and makes his books so valuable. In many ways, he reminds me a great deal of the late Carl Sagan. Sagan had the ability to reach out to those of us who are untrained in science but still have the thirst to know about the greater universe surrounding us.
If you're looking for a good, sturdy read, then this is the book for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Magnificent
Comment: I just sat down to write a glowing review of Brian Greene's new book, and was frankly shocked to see the few, but inaccurate, reviews among the many positive ones.
I am a high school science teacher and, among other books, have been using Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe in class for a few years, so I know it extremely well (the students love it--the book has even inspired a couple of our students to study physics in college). I just devoured The Fabric of the Cosmos, so I now know it well too. It is a fresh, original, highly creative presentation of a tremendous amount of material, most of which is not covered in The Elegant Universe. To say otherwise is wrong. The retired physics professor who sent in a review a few days ago said it really well: in this book, Brian Green tackles the "big" and most puzzling discoveries that were not part of his first book.
For example, I've been searching for years for an understandable and complete explanation of the Einstein-Rosen-Podolski effect (if you don't know what this is, you are in for a treat when you read the book). The Fabric of the Cosmos finally gives one. I've read many attempts in previous books (and articles too), but no explanation I've ever read comes anywhere near the clarity and fullness of the one given in The Fabric of the Cosmos. After years of people trying to explain this effect in layman's terms, this book finally succeeds.
The chapters that talk about whether time flows and why it has a direction, whether space and time should be thought of as physical substances, and experiments on quantum time, are equally lucid and entertaining, as are the chapters on recent advances in cosmology, Superstring theory, teleportation, and even the charming discussion of speculations on time travel. (None of this was in The Elegant Universe. I know this for a fact, having read The Elegant Universe with my class every year for three straight years.)
In summary, this is a true marvel of science explication. I am now adding it to readings for my class. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly instructive writing about space and time
Comment: Before buying a newly published book, I almost always read reviews on it. However, I bought this book as soon as it was published without following the usual procedure, because the previous book by the same author, "The Elegant Universe," proved Brian Greene's high ability of clear writing on cutting-edge physics. This new book even exceeded my expectation.
Greene, who made a number of important discoveries in superstring theory, explains about the present understanding of space and time starting from historical ideas from Newton's days and reaching the possible experimental confirmation of extra dimensions predicted by theoretical models as well as future allusions. The book is written for laypersons without using equations in the main text, but includes about 40 pages of notes for the expert reader. Thus scientists and engineers can also enjoy it very much.
The author makes good use of analogies, among which I liked the one about Bell's inequality best. Expert readers may find explanations in earlier chapters a little too lengthy, but this book has the following instructive feature: Greene's explanation often made me have a small question, but on reading ahead, I found that the author had expected the same question and had given the answer to it in the text or in a note! I believe that many of the young readers of this book would be interested in becoming a physicist or a cosmologist to study the deep mysteries of space and time.
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Title: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene ISBN: 0375708111 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The New Quantum Universe by Tony Hey, Patrick Walters ISBN: 0521564573 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 23 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0767908171 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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