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    Fabric of the Cosmos
    Project: The Total Library
    If ever there was a book I read that "Defined Reality", Then Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality is it. This book simplifies the Physics necessary to understand the most complex and exotic theories of reality that those kooky physicists can dream up.

    The concepts that we take for granted for our entire lives, space and time, are described, explained, and challeneged. Greene answers all of our favorite questions with the latest knowledge from the scientific community:

    Is Space an entity?
    Why does time have a direction?
    Could the universe exist without space and time?
    Can we travel to the past?

    This book will provide the reader with a context that makes it nearly impossible to retain a closed mind, by showing that we all come from the same spot, and indeed, were all headed to the same place.


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    WorkingRobot     Thu, Aug 7, 2008  Permanent link
    While this book covers a great array of topics surrounding the nature of our universe, Brian Greene has a habit of restating and explaining the same conceptions ad nauseum; this applies both to new concepts as well as any references made to prior concepts or explanations from his previous work (i.e. Elegant Universe)

    Unlike Fabric of the Cosmos, The Elegant Universe is largely free from the intellectual and literary redundancy which is, I can only imagine, an artifact of the audience it aims to "inform".
     
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