The elegant universe
Subtitle: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory
By: Brian Greene.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Superstring theories; Cosmology
Notes: Previously published: New York : W.W. Norton, c1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-428) and index.
Table of contents: title: Edge of knowledge: Tied up with string; title: Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta: Space, time, and the eye of the beholder; title: Of warps and ripples; title: Microscopic weirdness; title: Need for a new theory: general relativity vs. quantum mechanics; title: Cosmic symphony: Nothing but music: the essentials of superstring theory; title: "Super" in superstrings; title: More dimensions than meet the eye; title: Smoking gun: experimental signatures; title: String theory and the fabric of spacetime: Quantum geometry; title: Tearing the fabric of space; title: Beyond strings: in search of M-theory; title: Black holes: a string/M-theory perspective; title: Reflections on cosmology; title: Unification in the twenty-first century: Prospects.