The Elegant Universe

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Intro

Title Page

Dedication

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Part I: The Edge of Knowledge

1. Tied Up with String

Part II: The Dilemma of Space, Time, and the Quanta

2. Space, Time, and the Eye of the Beholder

3. Of Warps and Ripples

4. Microscopic Weirdness

5. The Need for a New Theory: General Relativity vs. Quantum Mechanics

Part III: The Cosmic Symphony

6. Nothing but Music: The Essentials of Superstring Theory

7. The ""Super"" in Superstrings

8. More Dimensions Than Meet the Eye

9. The Smoking Gun: Experimental Signatures Part IV: String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime

10. Quantum Geometry

11. Tearing the Fabric of Space

12. Beyond Strings: In Search of M-Theory

13. Black Holes: A String/M-Theory Perspective

14. Reflections on Cosmology

Part V: Unification in the Twenty-First Century

15. Prospects

Notes

Glossary of Scientific Terms

References and Suggestions for Further Reading