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From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.

Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? From Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.

"As a popularizer of exquisitely abstract science, he is both a skilled and kindly explicator....[H]is excitement for science on the threshold of vital breakthroughs is supremely contagious. THE FABRIC OF THE COSMOS is as dazzling as it is tough, and it beautifully reflects this theoretician's ardor for his work."

Janet Maslin, New York Times, 02/26/2004

"Brian Greene...has now followed up his earlier, very successful book, THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE, to give lucid and accessible explanations of a wider range of cosmological abstractions....[A] vivid, exciting book."

Carolin Crawford, London Review of Books, 05/19/2005

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