A master of strings who won't leave you hanging

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	• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory Brian Greene W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 506 reviews view larger image
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A master of strings who won't leave you hanging

For me, "The Elegant Universe" is the book that started it all. Greene has such a smooth way of easing the novice into the complexities of string theory, the reader feels almost acquainted by the time the science is introduced. Never boring or tedious, Greene deftly guides us through the basics of relativity, explains the importance of frames of reference, and eases us into the almost magical world of gravity and timespace.
Like Einstein, Greene presents the science through simple visuals - balls and bicycles, funny cars and cartoon spaceships. The reader will never feel as though he sits in a classroom with a boring professor droning away the afternoon. Instead, Greene describes the physics in a real world way and in doing so, prepares even the most casual student for the truly strange world of strings.
String theory appears to be the road to a unified theory, the long sought Theory of Everything that will unite relativity and quantum mechanics. Along the way is a wonderous world of possibilities, with extra dimensions, parallel worlds, and all the while, tiny strings vibrating the symphony of the universe.
I read this book with a zeal normally reserved for action novels. Each night was a new lesson and a new glimpse at a different part of the universe. Greene's gift is a clear and friendly writing style that makes this heavy science accessible to those of us without a string of initials at the end of our name.
Many physicists came before Greene and others have followed suit. But for me, "The Elegant Universe" is the book that opened my eyes to the mind blowing world of strings and the possibilities they present. And I've been hooked on string theory since. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever looked at a sky full of stars and wondered what it's all about.
Mark LaFlamme, author of "The Pink Room"

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This book is excellent for any age.

Age doesn't matter with this book, if you are interested in the subject matter you can read this and love it. I'm 17 and my dad gave me the book to read after a conversation about the universe. I absolutely love it and can understand what he's talking about. This isn't just a book for stuffy old people, this is a book for the curious. This book has answers.

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Elegantly Beutiful

The best way to describe the book is "great." Not only does Greene know the String Theory, but he is able to tell the average person about it. The book does not require the person reading it to have a P.H.D, making any one enterested in physics able to casually read the book as if were a newspaper. However, at the same time he is able to go into vast detail; enableing the reader to understand the true insight of the theory and its applications.

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Good book

This is a great book that provides a good overview of the Superstring theory. Must read for anyone who wants to get a background here.

Simply outstanding!

Brian Greene accomplishes it all in one sweep: he tells an enjoyable, enthralling story - a real page turner - and he gets a thoroughly complicated message accross even to non-trained readers. My background is that of an electronics engineer, with only basic training in quantum mechanics. As Dr. Greene mentions a few times in the book, maybe it will take two or three (or more, depending on your background) readings to be able to fully digest it all, but even if you read it only once, it suffices to put you up-to-date with the advancements (and, still, some shortcomings) of string theory in the direction of the TOE.

I am excitedly waiting to see some of the expectations of the scientific community regarding string theory confirmed (or not) in the coming years - and the best part is, I feel certainly able at least to follow the results, after having read this masterfully written book.

If you are, like me, one of those astronomy fans whose first contact with astronomy and cosmology was Isaac Asimov's "The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar", then felt delighted with Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time", then I strongly recommend that you pick this one up as a worthy sequel to those masterpieces.

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