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“Send[s] the reader’s imagination hurtling through space on an astonishing ride. . . . He is both a skilled and kindly explicator. His excitement for science on the threshold of vital breakthroughs is extremely contagious.” -The New York Times

“The best exposition and explanation of early 21st-century research into the fundamental nature of the universe as you are likely to find anywhere.” -Science

“Perhaps the single best explainer of abstruse science in the world today. . . . Greene has a gift for finding the right metaphor.” -The Washington Post

“I recommend Greene’s book to any nonexpert reader who wants an up-to-date account of theoretical physics, written in colloquial language that anyone can understand.” -Freeman Dyson, The New York Review of Books

“As pure intellectual adventure, this is about as good as it gets. . . . Even compared with A Brief History of Time, Greene’s book stands out for its sweeping ambition . . . stripping down the mystery from difficult concepts without watering down the science.” -Newsday

"Greene is as elegant as ever, cutting through the fog of complexity with insight and clarity. Space and time, you might even say, become putty in his hands." -Los Angeles Times

Preface

Part I Reality's Arena
1. Roads to Reality … 3
2. The Universe and the Bucket … 23
3. Relativity and the Absolute … 39
4. Entangling Space … 77

Part II Time and Experience
5. The Frozen River … 127
6. Chance and the Arrow … 143
7. Time and the Quantum … 177

Part III Spacetime and Cosmology
8. Of Snowflakes and Spacetime … 219
9. Vaporizing the Vacuum … 251
10. Deconstructing the Bang … 272
11. Quanta in the Sky with Diamonds … 304

Part IV Origins and Unification
12. The World on a String … 327
13. The Universe on a Brane … 376

Part V Reality and Imagination
14. Up in the Heavens and Down in the Earth … 415
15. Teleporters and Time Machines … 437
16. The Future of an Allusion … 470

Notes … 495
Glossary … 537
Suggestions for Further Reading … 543
Index … 545

From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author of 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?

Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. 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.