The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality in Science and Inquiry

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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

Brian Greene

Start date: April 1, 2015

Finish date: April 30, 2015

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Nov 20, 2011 bup rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: science, favorites, 2011, trying-to-get-theoretical-physics

This book should be required reading for anyone who lives in the universe. This generation's Carl Sagan wrote it. He may even be a better 'educator of the general masses' than Sagan was.

Greene writes for the non-expert who wants to understand - not just be told, and accept, the analogies - but who wants to be persuaded and actually shown that the universe is the way theoretical physics is the way it is. (Unlike some physics authors I could mention).

He asks the questions I want to ask, and then a ...more

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May 10, 2018 Erica rated it it was amazing

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My mind was seriously stretched by this book. I think Greene is one of the best at making difficult subjects very accessible. This is one of those books that needs back to back readings to soak it all in. I set out to read this because I had what I thought was a simple question about the shape of the universe. I came away not with an answer like I expected, but an even deeper mystery, and more possibilities. An now I am not so sure that my original question was even framed correctly anymore, or ...more

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