Greene, Brian <br/><br/>
The elegant universe :  superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory / 
Brian Greene. 
 - 1st Vintage Books ed. 
 - New York :  Vintage Books,  2000. 
 - xvi, 447 páginas :  ilustrado ;  24 centímetros. 
<br/><br/> National bestseller. Pulitzer Prize finalist 
<br/><br/>Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 426-427) e indice. 
<br/><br/>The edge of knowledge -- Tied up with string -- The dilemma of space, time, and the quanta -- Space, time, end the eye of the beholder -- Of warps and ripples -- Microscopic weirdness -- The need for a new theory: general relativity vs. quantum mechanics -- The cosmic symphony -- Nothing but music: the essentials of superstring theory -- The "super" in superstrings -- Moer dimensions than meet the eye -- The smoking gun: experimental signatures -- String theory and the fabric of spacetime -- Quantum geometry -- Tearing the fabric of space -- Beyond strings: in search of M-Theory -- Black holes: a string/M-theory perspective -- Reflections on cosmology -- Unification in the twenty-first century -- Prospects. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780375708114 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Teoría de supercuerdas<br/>Cosmología
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC794.6.S85  / G75 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>539.7258  / G799e