ScienceBook · 1999
The Elegant Universe
Brian Greene
Greene works up from relativity and quantum mechanics to the conflict between them, then argues that vibrating strings, supersymmetry and extra dimensions resolve it, across fifteen chapters. He is unusually honest about which parts are established and which are hope. The linked copy is the 2003 reissue with an updated preface; the catalogued year is the 1999 first publication.
Why you should read this
A popular introduction to string theory and the attempt to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics, aimed at readers without a physics background. It was adapted into a television series and remains an approachable route into a genuinely difficult area of theoretical physics.
- Field
- Science
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 1999
- Themes
- PhysicsScience
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