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

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Brian Greene (2010)

Preface

Part I. The Edge of Knowledge

Chapter 1. Tied Up with String

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

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

Chapter 3. Of Warps and Ripples

Chapter 4. Microscopic Weirdness

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

Part III. The Cosmic Symphony

Chapter 6. Nothing but Music: The Essentials of Superstring Theory

Chapter 7. The "Super" in Superstrings

Chapter 8. More Dimensions Than Meet the Eye

Chapter 9. The Smoking Gun: Experimental Signatures

Part IV. String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime

Chapter 10. Quantum Geometry

Chapter 11. Tearing the Fabric of Space

Chapter 12. Beyond Strings: In Search of M-Theory

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

Chapter 14. Reflections on Cosmology

Part V. Unification in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 15. Prospects

Notes

Glossary of Scientific Terms

References and Suggestions for Further Reading