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.
【目录】
PartⅠ REALITY'S ARENA
1.Roads to Reality
Space,Time,and Why Things Are as They Are
2. The Universe and the Bucket
Is Space a Human Abstraction or a Physical Entity?
3.Relativity and the Absolute
Is Spacetime an Einsteinian Abstraction or a Physical Entity?
4.Entangling Space
What Does It Mean to Be Separate in a Quantum Universe?
PartⅡ TIME AND EXPERIENCE
5.The Frozen River
Does Time Flow ?
6.Chance and the Arrow
Does Time Have a Dyrection?
7.Time and the Quantum
Insights into Time's Nature from the Quantum Realm
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