text The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory
- Summary
- Relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind the search for the string theory--the ultimate theory which scientists believe is capable of describing all physical phenomena, large and small; and discusses how the theory is impacting h... Read more
- Contents
- Edge of knowledge -- Tied up with string -- Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta -- Space, time, and the eye of the beholder -- Of warps and ripples -- Microscopic weirdness -- Need for a new theory : general relativity vs. quantum mechanics -- ... Read more
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- Description
- xv, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Co. 2003
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