by Brian Greene · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141035291
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«The Fabric of the Cosmos» is Brian Greene's popular science essay, published by Penguin in paperback (592 pages, in English).
Brian Greene explains the nature of space and time and addresses questions such as whether the universe could exist without them or whether traveling to the past is possible. With everyday analogies he introduces string theory, the uncertainty principle and inflationary cosmology, and reviews the ideas of Newton, Einstein and quantum mechanics.
This edition belongs to the Penguin Celebrations series; its subtitle is Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, and the work first appeared in 2004.
For general readers interested in physics and cosmology; no prior scientific training required.
Brian Randolph Greene is an American physicist known for his research on string theory. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its center for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival, which he co-founded in 2008. Greene co-discovered mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds. He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, and the conifold transition, a more severe transformation of space, showing that topology can smoothly change in string theory.
