Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings. It's not science fiction, it's string theory. One of the most ambitious and exciting theories ever proposed—one that may be the long-sought "theory of everything," which eluded even Einstein—gets a masterful, lavishly computer-animated explanation from bestselling author-physicist Brian Greene, when NOVA presents the nuts, bolts, and sometimes outright nuttiness of string theory.
Also known as superstring theory, the startling idea proposes that the fundamental ingredients of nature are inconceivably tiny strings of energy, whose different modes of vibration underlie everything that happens in the universe. The theory successfully unites the laws of the large—general relativity—and the laws of the small—quantum mechanics—breaking a conceptual logjam that has frustrated the world's smartest scientists for nearly a century.
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory is a book by Brian Greene published in , which introduces string and superstring theory , and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings. A new edition was released in , with an updated preface. Beginning with a brief consideration of classical physics , which concentrates on the major conflicts in physics, Greene establishes a historical context for string theory as a necessary means of integrating the probabilistic world of the standard model of particle physics and the deterministic Newtonian physics of the macroscopic world.
Greene discusses the essential problem facing modern physics: unification of Albert Einstein 's theory of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Greene suggests that string theory is the solution to these two conflicting approaches. Please type in your email address in order to receive an email with instructions on how to reset your password. In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat.
Green uses everything from an amusement park ride to ants on a garden hose to illustrate the beautiful yet bizarre realities that modern physics is unveiling. May be useful. You May Like This Books. Until the End of Time Brian Greene. Astronomy Dinah L. Universe in Creation Roy R. Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos Dennis Overbye. Your Place in the Universe Paul M. The Summer Proposal Vi Keeland. End of Days Brad Taylor.
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