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Summary: Wonderful, amazing book!
Review: This book really brings to life the aspects of String Theory! If you want more info on String Thoery and Dimensions, definitely read this book!
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Summary: The Speed of Light
Review: This is a very well written book and it brings modern physics almost to the point of understandability for the average reader. However, on page 51 it states not once, but twice, that C squared is " twice the speed of light " which is not what they taught when I was in school. I'm sure it's only an error, but it's awfully embarassing to see it get past the author, the editors and the proofreaders.
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Summary: Travel in Spacetime
Review: Just the explanation of how we all travel through spacetime at the speed of light was worth the price of the book.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: If a book can allow me to get a grasp if not a limited understanding of special and string theory. Its got to be a truly great piece of work. And that it is.
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Summary: The best physics divulgation book I have ever read
Review: This is a fascinating book for laymen people as well as physicists or scientists in general. It explains such a difficult theory as superstring theory with an unforeseen clarity, making lots of analogies to clearly understand the underlying concepts. Even those subjects, as relativity and quantum mechanics, which has been extensively treated anywhere else, are exposed with such a clarity that they make an intellectual 'refresh' even for expert people...The last chapters, dealing with the ampliation of superstring theory to M-theory and its aplicattion to cosmology and black holes may be a little harder to follow in a single read for the laymen, but essentialy a lot of physics developed during the last century is explained in less than 400 pages... Greatly recommended.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: -spelling errors abound...I'm sorry;) As a person interested in physics, but has occational trouble with mathematics, Brian Greene does what many scientists are unable to accomplish-make the complicated seem effortless and easily accessible to the layman. Reminds me of Sagan or Assimov in his quest to think beyond mental limits, and make others understand.
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Summary: Amazing reading!
Review: With mere elementary College knowledge of physics and relativity, I still found this book to be extremely stimulating and interesting. Having read Stephen Hawkings "A brief history of time" 7 years ago was my only prior touch with this issue. It is NOT always that easy to read the book, because of the ammount of information thrown at you, but still it is done in a gracefull manner that keeps your grasping for more... A 5 star book without any doubt!
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Summary: An Elegant Story
Review: Brian Greene has managed to frame a very abstruse subject in a surprisingly comprehensible way. I suppose there are two kinds of frustration with the genre that popularizers of complex scientific subjects are constrained to use. The first frustration belongs to those who have little or no formal training in science and mathematics. The valiant attempts to express complex mathematical formalisms in everyday language can't help but leave most of those readers mystified. The second frustration belongs to those who do have enough formal training to grasp a more mathematical approach, but usually wind up as mystified as the non-technical reader for the same reason - it is well nigh impossible to express such complex ideas clearly in any language but the language of mathematics. Greene does provide more technical information in his notes toward the back of the book, but many are very sketchy and probably clear only to those who don't really need them. Still, I applaud his effort to provide more mathematical information via this means than most publishers seem to be willing to allow in the main body of the text (what I perceive to be the "anathema" of equations in popular scientific books). Be that is it may, I believe that Greene has done an excellent job of conveying the history, current status, and future prospects of String Theory. The presentation is well-structured and balanced. The remarkable professional integration of the global Physics community is well portrayed. The use of lower dimensional spaces as analogs for the higher dimensional spaces of String Theory is an effective device in helping the reader to grasp the general significance of the theories main features. Although I was not personally able to gain an intuitive grasp of what "curled-up" dimensions really are, by the end of the book, the concept did seem, if not "natural", at least "logical." Although String Theory and its more general form, M-Theory, has yet to be empirically validated through experimentally verifiable predictions, its power, internal consistency, and dazzling beauty are very compelling reasons for believing that it may well be the long sought-after Theory of Everything. Brian Greene has done an excellent job in building a very strong case for this worldview. It's very difficult not to get caught-up in the excitement and enthusiasm of this story.
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Summary: Absolutely First Rate
Review: I had to read each chapter three times: first time through carefully, second time through with a pen to underline the important parts, and then a third time to remind myself of what I had read. Does that sound like a lot of work? Well, I absolutely loved it. No book has held my interest with such passion in years. Fantastically interesting material, beautifully written about.
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Summary: A Great Overview...
Review: This book was simply a great popularization of physics book in the tradition of Hawking's best works. Greene has the ability to explain concepts in excellent ways. Anyone who has any curiosity about this emerging aspect of theoretical physics, this is the book to read. Furthermore, the biographical portions were very interesting as well. Read this book!
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