The Fabric of the Cosmos宇宙的构造
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出 版 社： 江西人民出版社
出版时间： 2005-2-8字数：版次： 1页数： 569印刷时间： 2005/02/08开本： 大32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780375727207包装： 平装内容简介
From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author 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? 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.
目录
PartⅠ REALITY'S ARENA
1.Roads to Reality
Space,Time,and Why Things Are as They Are
2. The Universe and the Bucket
Is Space a Human Abstraction or a Physical Entity?
3.Relativity and the Absolute
Is Spacetime an Einsteinian Abstraction or a Physical Entity?
4.Entangling Space
What Does It Mean to Be Separate in a Quantum Universe?
PartⅡ TIME AND EXPERIENCE
5.The Frozen River
Does Time Flow ?
6.Chance and the Arrow
Does Time Have a Dyrection?
7.Time and the Quantum
Insights into Time's Nature from the Quantum Realm
PartⅢ SPACETIME AND COSMOLOGY
8.Of Snowflakes and Spacetime
Symmetry and the Evolution of the Cosmos
9.Vaporizng the Vacuum
Heat,Nothingness,and Unification
10.Deconstructing the Bang
What Banged?
11.Quanta in the Sky with Diamonds
Intlation,Quantum Jitters,and the Arrow of Time
PartⅣ ORIGINS AND UNIFICATION
12.The World on a string
The Fabric According to String Theory
13.The Universe on a Brane
Speculations on Space and Time in M-Theory
PartⅤ REALITY AND IMAGINATION
14.Up in the Heavens and Down in the Earth
Experimenting with Space and Time
15.Teleporters and Time Machines
Traveling Through Space and Time
16.The Future of an Allusion
Prospects for Space and Time
Notes
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
