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• ISBN: 0375727205
• ISBN: 9780375727207
• ISBN: 0375412883
• ISBN: 9780375412882
• Physical Description: xii, 569 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Edition: 1st edition
• Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-544) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1: Reality's arena -- Part 2: Time and experience -- Part 3: Spacetime and cosmology -- Part 4: Origins and unification -- Part 5: Reality and imagination.

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.

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Cosmology > Popular works.