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Fabric of the Cosmos
576 pages, 2004
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From Brian Greene, one of the world’s cleverest physicists and author of The Elegant Universe comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Time and space form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts: why is there something rather than nothing? Can we travel to the past? Can we travel to parallel universes? In order to explain nonintuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, Inflationary Cosmology, and Quantum Mechanics—and to distinguish them from science fiction—Greene has set himself a daunting task: using everyday experiences drawn from his life as an example, he must explain these complex concepts in clear language.

