2003 Preface
Preface
Pt. I : The Edge of Knowledge
1. Tied Up with String 3
Pt. II : The Dilemma of Space, Time, and the Quanta
2. Space, Time, and the Eye of the Beholder 23
3. Of Warps and Ripples 53
4. Microscopic Weirdness 85
5. The Need for a New Theory: General Relativity vs. Quantum Mechanics 117
Pt. III : The Cosmic Symphony
6. Nothing but Music: The Essentials of Superstring Theory 135
7. The "Super" in Superstrings 166
8. More Dimensions Than Meet the Eye 184
9. The Smoking Gun: Experimental Signatures 210
Pt. IV : String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime
10. Quantum Geometry 231
11. Tearing the Fabric of Space 263
12. Beyond Strings: In Search of M-Theory 283
13. Black Holes: A String/M-Theory Perspective 320
14. Reflections on Cosmology 345
Pt. V : Unification in the Twenty-First Century
15. Prospects 373
Notes 389
Glossary of Scientific Terms 413
References and Suggestions for Further Reading 427
Index 429
Brian Greene [Àú]
Brian Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He joined the physics faculty at Cornell University in 1990, was appointed to a full professorship in 1995, and in 1996 joined Columbia University where he is professor of physics and mathematics. He has lectured at both a general and a technical level in more than twenty-five countries and is widely regarded for a number of ground breaking discoveries in superstring theory. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City.