The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

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User Review - Renzomalo - LibraryThing

Not my cup of tea. I have the 1999 edition and had high hopes for gaining insights into the current state of universe, but it was not to be. What I did find was a somewhat self-aggrandizing tome on ... Read full review

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User Review - scottcholstad - LibraryThing

Greene is an interesting physicist. I'm not sure many more "traditional" physicists would always agree with his ideas, but they make for interesting reading and thinking. This is a typical example and thus recommended. Read full review

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User Review - antao - LibraryThing

(Original review, 2001) The Kabbalah also describes 10 dimensions and beings that inhabit them. Perhaps these beings are real and at certain levels of dimensional perception they have already seen and ... Read full review

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User Review - gypsysmom - LibraryThing

At long last I have finished this book. It took me a long time to read it, not because I didn't find it interesting, but because I needed to have periods of uninterrupted time to read and absorb the ... Read full review

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User Review - gregorybrown - LibraryThing

Well-written, fascinating look at the development of special and general relativity—and the omissions that are driving theoretical research ever since. HOWEVER, and this is a huge caveat, most of the ... Read full review

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User Review - justindtapp - LibraryThing

I have long wanted to read Brian Greene's books, and enjoyed seeing his Nova episodes on time and space. Physics tells us that "every moment in time already exists," which is a concept that will blow ... Read full review

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User Review - jimocracy - LibraryThing

I enjoyed reading this book very much. I learned many things about cosmology and discovered even more things that just went right over my head. I am considering reading String Theory for Dummies but ... Read full review

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User Review - inasrullah64 - LibraryThing

Not a clear explainer of complex science Read full review

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User Review - jmcgarry2011 - LibraryThing

Good description of string theory. He tries to simplify it for a general audience, but it can be slow going for a while. The book is dated; there is an example of a company building a bridge between ... Read full review

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User Review - nmarun - LibraryThing

This book starts with giving you the basics of relativity, gravity and moves on with space-time continuum, time dilation and finally comes to the Theory of Everything - String Theory. Just brilliantly ... Read full review