E-audiobook
The elegant universe superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415963470 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1415963479 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 15:36:27. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Edge of knowledge -- Tied up with string -- Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta -- Space, time, and the eye of the beholder -- Of warps and ripples -- Microscopic weirdness -- Need for a new theory: general relativity vs. quantum mechanics -- Cosmic symphony -- Nothing but music: the essentials of superstring theory -- "Super" in superstrings -- More dimensions than meet the eye -- Smoking gun: experimental signatures -- String theory and the fabric of spacetime -- Quantum geometry -- Tearing the fabric of space -- Beyond strings: in search of m-theory -- Black holes: a string/m-theory perspective -- Reflections on cosmology -- Unification in the twenty-first century -- Prospects. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Erik Davies. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 224356 KB; MP3 file size: 439104 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Superstring theories Cosmology Supercordes (Physique nucl�eaire) Cosmologie Snaartheorie |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
