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About Brian Greene
Brian Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
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From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes a captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose.
"Few humans share Greene’s mastery of both the latest cosmological science and English prose."
—The New York Times (notable book of 2020)
Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vast expanse. Greene takes us on a journey from the big bang to the end of time, exploring how lasting structures formed, how life and mind emerged, and how we grapple with our existence through narrative, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and a deep longing for the eternal. From particles to planets, consciousness to creativity, matter to meaning—Brian Greene allows us all to grasp and appreciate our fleeting but utterly exquisite moment in the cosmos.
A new edition of the New York Times bestseller—now a three-part Nova special: a fascinating and thought-provoking journey through the mysteries of space, time, and matter.
Now with a new preface (not in any other edition) that will review the enormous public reception of the relatively obscure string theory—made possible by this book and an increased number of adherents amongst physicists—The Elegant Universe "sets a standard that will be hard to beat" (New York Times Book Review). Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists 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.
Today physicists and mathematicians throughout the world are feverishly working on one of the most ambitious theories ever proposed: superstring theory. String theory, as it is often called, is the key to the Unified Field Theory that eluded Einstein for more than thirty years. Finally, the century-old antagonism between the large and the small-General Relativity and Quantum Theory-is resolved. String theory proclaims that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe, from the frantic dancing of subatomic quarks to the majestic swirling of heavenly galaxies, are reflections of one grand physical principle and manifestations of one single entity: microscopically tiny vibrating loops of energy, a billionth of a billionth the size of an atom. In this brilliantly articulated and refreshingly clear book, Greene relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind twentieth-century physics' search for a theory of everything.
Through the masterful use of metaphor and analogy, The Elegant Universe makes some of the most sophisticated concepts ever contemplated viscerally accessible and thoroughly entertaining, bringing us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.
Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? 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. From Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.
The bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos tackles perhaps the most mind-bending question in modern physics and cosmology: Is our universe the only universe?
There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, a number of theories are converging on the possibility that our universe may be but one among many parallel universes populating a vast multiverse. Here, Briane Greene, one of our foremost physicists and science writers, takes us on a breathtaking journey to a multiverse comprising an endless series of big bangs, a multiverse with duplicates of every one of us, a multiverse populated by vast sheets of spacetime, a multiverse in which all we consider real are holographic illusions, and even a multiverse made purely of math--and reveals the reality hidden within each.
Using his trademark wit and precision, Greene presents a thrilling survey of cutting-edge physics and confronts the inevitable question: How can fundamental science progress if great swaths of reality lie beyond our reach? The Hidden Reality is a remarkable adventure through a world more vast and strange than anything we could have imagined.
Brian Greene nos explica en este libro cómo las grandes teorías de la relatividad y de la mecánica cuántica nos han conducido al mayor problema con que se enfrenta la Física hoy en día: la búsqueda de una ley que unifique a todas las demás, una ley que Einstein persiguió en vano durante treinta años y a la que se le da el nombre de «teoría de supercuerdas». Con maestría, claridad y un profundo conocimiento, Greene nos ofrece en la aportación más brillante que se ha escrito hasta ahora para hacer accesible al gran público este último misterio de la naturaleza que nos explicaría, finalmente, todo.
Hasta el final del tiempo es la nueva e impresionante exploración que Brian Greene hace del cosmos y nuestra búsqueda para llegar a comprenderlo. Partiendo de que los humanos somos las únicas criaturas con conciencia de nuestra finitud, y de que también el universo morirá algún día, el autor traza un viaje que nos lleva desde nuestro conocimiento más exacto sobre cómo empezó el universo hasta el final del tiempo, explorando cómo se formaron las estructuras duraderas, cómo del caos inicial surgió la vida y cómo nuestras mentes, al llegar a comprender su propia temporalidad, han buscado diferentes maneras dar sentido a la experiencia a través de la historia, el mito, la religión, la expresión creativa o la ciencia.
A través de una serie de historias entretejidas que explican distintas capas de realidad, Greene nos proporciona una idea más clara de cómo llegamos a ser, una imagen más precisa de dónde estamos ahora y una comprensión más firme de hacia dónde nos dirigimos. Desde las partículas hasta los planetas, desde la conciencia hasta la creatividad, desde la materia hasta el significado, Brian Greene nos permite comprender y apreciar nuestro fugaz pero absolutamente exquisito momento en el cosmos.
Les plus récentes découvertes de la physique expliquées par l'un de ses plus jeunes et brillants théoriciens.
Le XXe siècle a vu naître les deux plus belles théories physiques jamais inventées. La première, la relativité générale, est l'œuvre d'un génie solitaire, Albert Einstein. Son domaine d'application est l'infiniment grand. La seconde, la mécanique quantique, est l'œuvre collective de certains des plus grands esprits de tous les temps. Son domaine d'application est l'infiniment petit. Ce sont ces deux théories qui font de la physique la "reine des sciences" - et elles sont, hélas, incompatibles entre elles. Lorsqu'on cherche à les réunir dans ce qu'on appelle "la théorie du tout", on se heurte à des difficultés insurmontables.
Après la relativité générale et la mécanique quantique, l'avenir appartient-il à la "théorie des cordes" ?
Aujourd'hui, une nouvelle théorie, la "théorie des cordes", semble en passe de réussir là où toutes les précédentes ont échoué : ce faisant, elle bouleverse notre conception de la matière, de l'espace et du temps. C'est l'histoire pleine de rebondissements de cette révolution en marche, où les particules élémentaires s'avèrent semblables à d'infimes bouts de ficelle, où l'espace-temps se déchire, se répare, se replie en dix dimensions invisibles, où le big-bang et les trous noirs prennent des formes inattendues, que nous raconte ici l'un de ses éminents acteurs.
Was ist die Superstringtheorie? Brian Greene, einer der führenden Physiker auf dem Gebiet der Superstrings, nimmt uns mit auf eine faszinierende und aufregende Reise zu den Grenzen unseres Verständnisses von Zeit, Raum und Materie.„Das elegante Universum“ ist ein populär geschriebenes und allgemein verständliches Kompendium unseres physikalischen Wissens.
Der weltbekannte Physiker Brian Greene schreibt die Geschichte des Universums, vom Urknall bis zu seinem Ende. Und die Geschichte des Menschen in diesem Universum. Er zeigt, wie sich in einem fast unendlichen Meer von Chaos und Unordnung Leben und Bewusstsein entwickeln konnten. Es ist eine Reise zu wandernden Planeten und wirbelnden Galaxien – und zugleich eine wunderbare Erzählung über das Streben des Menschen nach Sinn im Angesicht der Vergänglichkeit.
In seinem neuen Buch macht sich Physiker und Bestsellerautor Brian Greene auf die Suche nach der »verborgenen Wirklichkeit« im Universum. Er zeigt, warum vieles dafür spricht, dass wir in den Weiten des Kosmos nicht allein sind, und er beschreibt, welchen Parallelwelten die Astrophysiker auf der Spur sind. Wie keinem Zweiten gelingt es ihm dabei, physikalische Spitzenforschung mit hohem Unterhaltungswert zu verbinden.