THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE --- SUPERSTRINGS, HIDDEN DIMENSIONS, AND THE QUEST
FOR THE ULTIMATE THEORY by Brian Greene. W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. 1999
    2003 PREFACE (pvii-x)

    PREFACE (pxi-xvxv)

    PART 1--- THE EDGE OF KNOWLEDGE (p1-20)

      1) Tied up with string (p3-20)

    PART 2 --- THE DILEMMA OF SPACE, TIME, AND THE QUANTA (p21-131)

      2) Space, time, and the eye of the beholder (p23-52)

      3) Of warps and ripples (p53-84)

      4) Microscopic weirdness (p85-116)

      5) The need for a new theory --- general relativity vs. quantum mechanics (p117-131)

    PART 3 --- THE COSMIC SYMPHONY (p133-)

      6) Nothing but music --- the essentials of "superstring theory" (p135-165)

      7) The "super" in superstrings (p166-183)

      8) More dimensions than meet the eye (p184-209)

      9) The smoking gun --- experimental signatures (p210-227)

    PART 4 --- STRING THEORY AND THE FABRIC OF SPACETIME (p229-370)

      10) Quantum geometry (p231-262)

      11) Tearing the fabric of space (p263-282)

      12) Beyond strings in search of M-Theory (p283-319)

      13) Black holes --- a string/M Theory perspective (p320-344)

      14) Reflections on cosmology (p345-370)

    PART 5 --- UNIFICATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY (p373-387)

      15) Prospects (p373-387)

    NOTES (p389-412)

    GLOSSARY (p413-425)

    REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING (p427-428)

    INDEX (p429-448)

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