| 紀錄類型: |
書目-語言資料,印刷品
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
space, time, and the texture of reality |
| 作者: |
GreeneB., 1963- |
| 出版地: |
New York |
| 出版者: |
Vintage Books; |
| 出版年: |
2005 |
| 版本: |
1st Vintage Books ed. |
| 面頁冊數: |
xii, 569 p.ill. : 21 cm.; |
| 標題: |
Cosmology - Popular works - |
| 附註: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [543]-544) and index |
| ISBN: |
0375727205 |
| 內容註: |
Roads to reality : space, time, and why things are as they are The universe and the bucket : Is space a human abstraction or a physical entity? Relativity and the absolute : Is spacetime an Einsteinian abstraction or a physical entity? Entangling space : What does it mean to be separate in a quantum universe? The frozen river : Does time flow? Chance and the arrow : Does time have a direction? Time and the quantum : insights into time's nature from a quantum realm Of snowflakes and spacetime : symmetry and the evolution of the cosmos Vaporizing the vacuum : heat, nothingness, and unification Deconstructing the bang : What banged? Quanta in the sky with diamonds : inflation, quantum jitters, and the arrow of time The world on a string : the fabric according to string theory The universe on a brane : speculations on space and time in M-theory Up in the heavens and down in the Earth : experimenting with space and time Teleporters and time machines : traveling through space and time The future of an allusion : prospects for space and time |