The Elegant Universe

Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, has written an international bestseller that inspired a major NOVA special and sparked a new understanding of the universe. In his book The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, Greene peels away layers of mystery to reveal a universe consisting of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter—from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas—is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.