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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality by Marianne Kerkhof, Brian Greene
alexmayo9's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
mysterious
slow-paced
4.5
bookreviews1's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
4.75
lambici's review against another edition
4.0
I love this author. I just wish I was smart enough to follow some of the concepts.
iammyowngodandmartyr's review against another edition
3.0
This book probably doesn't differ that much from most pop science books, but Greene's oversimplistic analogies annoy me lmao like just explaining the equations is less confusing imo
cyclicalmotion's review against another edition
4.0
I admit that I skimmed a lot of the string theory parts because 1. I've read The Elegant Universe, 2. string theory isn't really my jam, and 3. I've accepted that I'm never going to be able to really understand string theory beyond what I already do. That aside, I found it an engaging, mostly well-articulated overview of modern physics/cosmology, and I particularly enjoyed the sections on entropy and the arrow of time.
nerdy_scholar's review against another edition
5.0
The search for a final theory of physics occupied the latter part of Einstein's life. This book shows why it was worth it. The amount of questions we still have to answer is only rivaled by the beauty of what we already know.
jolteon0's review against another edition
4.0
An excellent primer on the evolution of our understanding of the nature of reality over time, starting with Newtonian Absolute Space, and ending at current (at time of writing) M-Theory.
pavanayi's review against another edition
4.0
Brian Greene takes the reader on a journey through the mathematical equations scientists have come up in the past two centuries to describe the cosmos at a relaxed pace.
One of the renowned science educators in the world, Brian Greene's writing can seem long and winding at first, but certain sentences where he stops midway and inserts clauses like 'and this is important' brings the readers attention back to the theory he is trying to make us understand. Though a mathematically inclined reader would ask for more (Notes in the end do provide few), this is a wonderful book for people like the reader who is new or has a broad but shallow understanding of Quantum Physics and String Theory.
One of the renowned science educators in the world, Brian Greene's writing can seem long and winding at first, but certain sentences where he stops midway and inserts clauses like 'and this is important' brings the readers attention back to the theory he is trying to make us understand. Though a mathematically inclined reader would ask for more (Notes in the end do provide few), this is a wonderful book for people like the reader who is new or has a broad but shallow understanding of Quantum Physics and String Theory.