Bücher von Brian Greene

'Compulsively readable...Green threatens to do for string theory what Stephen Hawking did for holes' New York TimesIn this international bestseller, Columbia University professor Brian Greene provides, in layman's terms, a comprehensive demystification of string theory.

Ein Weltbestseller und Klassiker der modernen Physik - jetzt mit neuem Vorwort und einem ausführlichen neuen Nachwort zum 25-jährigen Jubiläum der Erstausgabe In diesem internationalen Bestseller und Klassiker der modernen Physik nimmt uns Brian Greene mit auf eine faszinierende Reise zu den Grenzen unseres Verständnisses von Zeit, Raum und Materie. Als Insider stellt er uns eine der ehrgeizigsten Theorien vor, die jemals entwickelt wurden: die Superstringtheorie, nach der alle Materie aus vibrierenden Superstrings besteht. Sie soll alle grundlegenden physikalischen Gesetze unseres Universums in einer Art »Weltformel« zusammenfassen und so ein Dilemma lösen, an dem nicht nur Einstein scheiterte, nämlich die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie mit der Quantenmechanik zu einer einheitlichen Theorie der »Quantengravitation« zu verbinden. In seinem Kompendium unseres physikalischen Wissens gelingt es Greene, auch die abstraktesten Hypothesen der modernen Physik einer breiten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen. Ausstattung: mit zahlreichen s/w-Darstellungen

With a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as graceful as the theories it so deftly explains, The Elegant Universe remains the unrivaled account of the modern search for the deepest laws of nature: "a standard that will be hard to beat" (George Johnson, New York Times Book Review). In this new 25th anniversary edition, renowned physicist and author Brian Greene-"the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today" (Washington Post)-updates his classic work with a new preface and epilogue summarizing the significant theoretical and experimental developments over the past quarter-century. From established science, including relativity and quantum mechanics, to the cutting edge of thinking on black holes, string theory, and quantum gravity, The Elegant Universe makes some of the most sophisticated concepts ever contemplated thoroughly accessible and entertaining, bringing us closer than ever to comprehending how the universe works.

From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.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.

Eine hervorragende Darstellung unseres physikalischen Wissens und der Suche nach der "Weltformel".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.