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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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February 2005
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9780375727207
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0375727205
Author:
Brian Greene
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Summary:

As a boy, Brian Greene read Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus and was transformed. Camus, in Greene's paraphrase, insisted that the hero triumphs "by relinquishing everything beyond immediate experience." After wrestling with this idea, however, Greene rejected Camus and realized that his true idols were physicists; scientists who struggled "to assess life and to experience the universe at all possible levels, not just those that happened to be accessible to our frail human senses." His driving question in The Fabric of the Cosmos, then, is fundamental: "What is reality?" Over sixteen chapters, he traces the evolving human understanding of the substrate of the universe, from classical physics to ten-dimensional M-Theory.

Assuming an audience of non-specialists, Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. For the most part, he succeeds. His language reflects a deep passion for science and a gift for translating concepts into poetic images. When explaining, for example, the inability to see the higher dimensions inherent in string theory, Greene writes: "We don't see them because of the way we see…like an ant walking along a lily pad…we could be floating within a grand, expansive, higher-dimensional space."

For Greene, Rhodes Scholar and professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, speculative science is not always as thorough and successful. His discussion of teleportation, for example, introduces and then quickly tables a valuable philosophical probing of identity. The paradoxes of time travel, however, are treated with greater depth, and his vision of life in a three-brane universe is compelling and--to use his description for quantum reality--"weird."

In the final pages Greene turns from science fiction back to the fringes of science fact, and he returns with rigor to frame discoveries likely to be made in the coming decades. "We are, most definitely, still wandering in the jungle," he concludes. Thanks to Greene, though, some of the underbrush has been cleared. --Patrick O'Kelley

Customer Reviews:

Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 

Another Great Book by Brian Greene

Customer Rating:  5 out of 5 stars 

This is simply another great book on the cosmos by Brian Greene. I previously read Greene's book "The Elegant Universe" and I think at enjoyed this one even more. Greene packs as enormous wealth of information in his books. Quite frankly, it takes me considerably longer to read one of his books than most other books I read because of the volume of new information I am learning.

Greene has done a fantastic job of explaining the cosmos in this work. His explanations are detailed and lengthy enough to thoroughly convey the concepts discussed. There were many concepts that I read about in other books which were clearly delineated in this book, and I went away with a much better understanding.

Green covers a wealth of information about the cosmos such as wave probability, uncertainty, spin, entanglement, the flow and direction of time, quantum erasure, decoherence, symmetry, the various forces of nature (strong, weak, electromagnetic, gravity), Higgs field, the big bang, inflation, dark matter, dark energy, entropy, string theory, branes, time travel, the future, and much more.

If you want to get a good education about the universe we live in, I high recommend Green's books.

great read

Customer Rating:  5 out of 5 stars 

allows the non-physics major to understand some of the most complicated and intricate principles and theories of abstract/theoretical physics.

Well written with no substance

Customer Rating:  2 out of 5 stars 

Greene's writing is an excellent draw for this book, which will ensure it is easily accessible to a wide range of potential readers. His style is extraordinarily engaging, although he is forced into a somewhat anachronistic arrangement.

The book suffers heavily from the legitimate accuracy early on. Greene makes mistaken claims on the nature of Special Relativity, particularly by claiming that the effects are more extreme when events are separated by larges spans of space. In reality, his example only shows a misapplication of common formulae to situations that they were not designed for. Additionally, he fails to accurately describe what "events" are being used for analysis. Where Greene has seen a relativistic effect of altering one's view of time by +/-500 yrs, closer scrutiny shows no relativistic effect, but a signal delay of +/-500 yrs (an important distinction in physics, as this is NOT due to a warping of space-time).

Furthermore, Greene's discussion of entropy as it may relate to time shows additional subtle internal inconsistencies. Without describing what "a moment" means, he seems to suggest that entropy is unrelated to the previous (or future) values of entropy. However, he still uses graphs with continuous lines to plot entropy.

With these faults at the base of his description of physics, one cannot truly trust in his arguments of more complicated phenomenon at all.

Great starting point in the genre

Customer Rating:  5 out of 5 stars 

I've read many books on cosmology and particle physics, it's just an incredible area of science to explore. This is easily one of the best reads in the genre that I've come across.

Greene has a gift (as does Leonard Susskind) for explaining an area of science that is, by it's very non-Newtonian nature, almost wholly counterintuitive. To a non-mathematical reader his ability to cover so many areas of the key theories, string and quantum among them, in a digestable fashion is relieving and fascinating.

If you have any interest in the topic this is a must-read.

Modern physics finally making sense

Customer Rating:  5 out of 5 stars 

Finally a book that goes deep, and answers (if possible) most questions. Books of this type usually generate questions as you read along. Brian Green has an intuition on what his reader's questions will be, and however difficult, he addresses them. So one has the feeling that most issues are thoroughly explained and as such, the reader can move on to the next issues without being perplexed about what has just been read.

Highly recommended for those who are interested in the mysteries of life. One sees the world with different eyes afterwards.

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