TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greene,B.
TI  - The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory 
SN  - 0375708111 (pbk.)
U1  - 539.7 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Superstring theories
KW  - Cosmology
N1  - Previously published: New York : W. W. Norton, c1999; Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-428) and index; Edge of knowledge: Tied up with string -- Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta: Space, time, and the eye of the beholder -- Of warps and ripples -- Microscopic weirdness -- Need for a new theory: general relativity vs. quantum mechanics -- Cosmic symphony: Nothing but music: the essentials of superstring theory -- "Super" in superstrings -- More dimensions than meet the eye -- 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
ER  -