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The Fabric of the Cosmos (Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality) - Community Reviews back

by Brian Greene
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 6 years ago
(original review, 2004)"Within each individual [time] slice, your thoughts and memories are sufficiently rich to yield a sense that time has continuously flowed to that moment. This feeling, this sensation that time is flowing, doesn't require previous moments—previous frames—to be "sequentially ill...
Book Talk 21st Century
Book Talk 21st Century rated it 10 years ago
This is his second book. I finished this book around the same time I was watching the new Cosmos series on Fox. (It's hard to believe that Seth McFarlane, the man behind Family Guy, is one of the producers of the new Cosmos. I'm still waiting for Stewie to show up, or for a Cosmos parody on Family G...
Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 13 years ago
"A First step for understanding the universe."He mentions in the beginning that a refutation for the Albert Camus question why don't we all just commit suicide is because we can learn about the universe and discover our place in it while we're alive. After reading this book, you'll always have unfin...
XOX
XOX rated it 13 years ago
Superb book on the current theory of physics, explaining not only String theory under M theory, but how we could view time and space, and the possibility to time travel.Good read for those who are curious about the universe we live in, and how human living on this very small planet is doing in tryin...
Never Read Passively
Never Read Passively rated it 15 years ago
I started this book hoping to get a basic understanding of the Theory of Relativity. I got that, and much, much more. I can't remember ever having read an author as talented at distilling and simplifying the complex as Brian Greene. He is great at using metaphor, repetition and illustrations to expl...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 15 years ago
Unabridged mp3 read. Narrated by Michael Pritchard.I am on the last hour of this and I can say that it's been enjoyable, what with pop-culture examples and smirky asides. The more one visits material the more the ideas stick and as I am a very weak version of velcro, repetition is welcome. When I wa...
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