Nate's review
The Fabric of the Cosmos (Space, time, and the texture of reality)
by Brian Greene
Nate's review
The Fabric of the Cosmos (Space, time, and the texture of reality) by Brian Greene
Nate's review
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In this book Greene discusses Einstein's theories of special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, time, cosmology, and superstring theory. He does a great job describing these mathematical theories using real world analogies (not math) that non-mathletes can understand. I found some parts of the book very interesting (e.g., special relativity, general relativity, and cosmology), but I found myself skimming through others (e.g., quantum mechanics and superstring theory). I assume the reason I skimmed through some parts is because they were too abstract and divorced from experience; they just didn't really interest me. A few years before writing this book Greene wrote a hugely popular book call The Elegant Universe. PBS subsequently created a three hour television program based on the book. If you are interested in any of this stuff I suggest you go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/e...
because you can watch the pr...more
because you can watch the pr...more
