Brian Greene Books
Brian Greene is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and professor at Columbia University. He is best known for his work on string theory and for popularizing complex scientific ideas through his books and television programs.
Known for: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Books by Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
What if everything in the universe—matter, energy, space, time, and gravity—could be explained by a single elegant framework? In The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene takes readers into one of modern phy...
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
What if space is not an empty stage, time is not a universal clock, and reality is far stranger than common sense allows? In The Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene takes readers on a sweeping journey ...
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
In this book, physicist Brian Greene explores the concept of the multiverse — the idea that our universe may be just one of many. He examines various scientific theories that suggest the existence of ...
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
What does it mean to search for purpose in a universe that will not last forever? In Until the End of Time, Brian Greene takes on one of humanity’s oldest questions with the tools of modern physics, e...
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Einstein and the Geometry of Reality
A revolutionary idea often begins by changing what we think space itself is. Before Einstein, gravity was commonly understood as an invisible force acting across empty space, much as Newton described it. Einstein transformed that picture. In general relativity, space and time are woven into a single...
From The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Quantum Mechanics and a Jittery World
The deeper we look into matter, the less the universe behaves like common sense expects. Quantum mechanics emerged when physicists realized that atoms, electrons, and light do not obey the smooth, predictable rules of classical physics. Instead, the microscopic world is governed by probabilities, di...
From The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Why Physics Needed a Unified Theory
A map with two masterpieces is still incomplete if the pieces cannot connect. That is the central frustration Greene explores in the relationship between general relativity and quantum mechanics. Each theory is astonishingly successful in its own domain: relativity explains the large-scale structure...
From The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Birth of String Theory
Sometimes the solution to a major problem begins by shrinking our assumptions to an almost unimaginable scale. String theory proposes that the basic constituents of reality are not zero-dimensional point particles, but tiny one-dimensional strings. These strings are so small that no current instrume...
From The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Gravity Emerges from String Vibrations
One of the most compelling features of string theory is that gravity is not awkwardly inserted into the theory—it appears naturally. This is a crucial reason the theory attracted so much attention. In the mathematical description of vibrating strings, one of the vibration modes has exactly the prope...
From The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Hidden Dimensions Beyond Everyday Experience
Reality may contain more dimensions than we can perceive, and that possibility is one of the book’s most mind-stretching ideas. We experience three dimensions of space and one of time, so the suggestion that extra spatial dimensions exist seems outrageous. Yet string theory requires additional dimen...
From The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
About Brian Greene
Brian Greene is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and professor at Columbia University. He is best known for his work on string theory and for popularizing complex scientific ideas through his books and television programs.
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