The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene) audio book

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  As a boy, Brian Greene read Albert Camus' <span style="font-style: italic;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679733736/103-3568913-6347841">The Myth of Sisyphus</a></span>and was transformed. Camus, in Greene's paraphrase, insisted that thehero triumphs &quot;by relinquishing everything beyond immediateexperience.&quot; After wrestling with this idea, however, Greene rejectedCamus and realized that his true idols were physicists; scientists whostruggled &quot;to assess life and to experience the universe at allpossible levels, not just those that happened to be accessible to ourfrail human senses.&quot; His driving question in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Fabric of the Cosmos</span>, then, is fundamental: &quot;What <span style="font-style: italic;">is</span>reality?&quot; Over sixteen chapters, he traces the evolving humanunderstanding of the substrate of the universe, from classical physicsto ten-dimensional M-Theory. Assuming an audience ofnon-specialists, Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explainnon-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the HeisenbergUncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawnfrom common experience. For the most part, he succeeds. His languagereflects a deep passion for science and a gift for translating conceptsinto poetic images. When explaining, for example, the inability to seethe higher dimensions inherent in string theory, Greene writes: &quot;Wedon't see them because of the <span style="font-style: italic;">way</span> we see�like an ant walking along a lily pad�we could be floating within a grand, expansive, higher-dimensional space.&quot;<br /> For Greene, Rhodes Scholar and professor of physics and mathematics atColumbia University, speculative science is not always as thorough andsuccessful. His discussion of teleportation, for example, introducesand then quickly tables a valuable philosophical probing of identity.The paradoxes of time travel, however, are treated with greater depth,and his vision of life in a three-brane universe is compelling and--touse his description for quantum reality--&quot;weird.&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375727205/103-3568913-6347841?v=glance&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books&amp;v=glance<br /> <br />
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Files

File	Size
CH 01 - Roads to Reality.mp3	14 MB
CH 02 - The Universe and the Bucket.mp3	11 MB
CH 03 - Relativity and the Absolute.mp3	24 MB
CH 04 - Entangling Space.mp3	31 MB
CH 05 - The Frozen River.mp3	10 MB
CH 06 - Chance and the Arrow.mp3	22 MB
CH 07 - Time and the Quantum.mp3	27 MB
CH 08 - Of Snowflakes and Spacetime.mp3	18 MB
CH 09 - Vaporizing the Vacuum.mp3	13 MB
CH 10 - Deconstructing the Bang.mp3	20 MB
CH 11 - Quanta in the Sky with Diamonds.mp3	13 MB
CH 12 - The World on a String.mp3	31 MB
CH 13 - The Universe on a Brane.mp3	23 MB
CH 14 - Up in the Heavens and Down in the Earth.mp3	14 MB
CH 15 - Teleporters and Time Machines.mp3	22 MB
CH 16 - The Future of an Allusion.mp3	18 MB
Cover.jpg	5.1 KB
torrent.torrent	25.8 KB
zOther Audio Books by JOG.txt	2.7 KB

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