The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dime... Page
The theory of the "small," which describes a chaotic, jittery subatomic world.
Einstein’s theory of the "large," which explains gravity as the warping of space and time. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dime...
One of the book’s most mind-bending sections explores the requirement for extra dimensions. While we experience three dimensions of space and one of time, string theory only works if there are . Greene explains that these extra dimensions aren't "somewhere else"—they are curled up so tightly (in shapes called Calabi-Yau manifolds) that they are invisible to us, yet they dictate the physical laws of our world. The Significance The theory of the "small," which describes a
In The Elegant Universe , Brian Greene takes the complex, often counterintuitive world of modern physics and makes it accessible, framing the quest for a "Theory of Everything" as a pursuit of ultimate aesthetic and mathematical harmony. The Conflict: Relativity vs. Quantum Mechanics While we experience three dimensions of space and