Brian Greene (1) (1963–)
Autor(a) de The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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About the Author
Brian Greene was born on February 9, 1963 in New York City. After attending Stuyvesant High School, where he was a classmate of fellow physicist Lisa Randall. Brian Greene entered Harvard in 1980 to major in physics. He graduated with a bachelor's degree, and went on to earn his doctorate from mostrar mais Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, graduating in 1987. Greene joined the physics faculty of Cornell University in 1990, and was appointed to a full professorship in 1995. The following year, he joined the staff of Columbia University as a full professor; this remains his current position. At Columbia, Greene is co-director of the University's Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (ISCAP), and is leading a research program applying superstring theory to cosmological questions. He has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, The Elegant Universe, Icarus at the Edge of Time, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Hidden Reality, and a related PBS television special. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (1999) 9,078 exemplares
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (2020) 546 exemplares
Space, Time & The Universe With Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe / The Fabric of the Cosmos Double-Feature) 2 exemplares
Superstrings and related matters : proceedings of the 1999 Spring Workshop on, The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy,… (2000) 2 exemplares
Superstrings : Topology, Geometry and Phenomenology & Astrophysical Implications of Supersymmetric Models (1986) 1 exemplar
The Elegant Universe (Unabridged) Part 2 1 exemplar
The Elegant Universe (Unabridged) Part 1 1 exemplar
The Scientists 1 exemplar
Associated Works
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (2006) — Contribuidor — 1,090 exemplares
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Contribuidor — 627 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Greene, Brian
- Nome legal
- Greene, Brian Randolph
- Outros nomes
- Green, Brian R.
- Data de nascimento
- 1963-02-09
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA (birthplace)
Andes, New York, USA - Educação
- Stuyvesant High School
Harvard University (BA|1984)
Magdalene College, Oxford University (D.Phil|1987) - Ocupações
- theoretical physicist
mathematician
professor
science consultant - Relações
- Binney, James (doctoral advisor)
Ross, Graham (doctoral advisor)
Gibbons, Jack (piano instructor)
Day, Tracy (spouse) - Organizações
- Cornell University
Columbia University
Columbia University Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics
World Science Festival - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Pulitzer Prize finalist
Foundational Questions Institute grant
Rhodes Scholar
Andrew Gemant Award (2003)
Richtmyer Memorial Award (2012)
Membros
Discussions
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene - drneutron tutoring bell7 em 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Julho 2016)
Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene - drneutron tutoring LizzieD em 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Agosto 2012)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 16
- Also by
- 7
- Membros
- 17,126
- Popularidade
- #1,299
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 193
- ISBN
- 182
- Línguas
- 18
- Marcado como favorito
- 48
“Until the End of Time” by Brian Greene fleshes out what Jim might have told me if I had taken the time to call the phone number.
I went into reading this book with a firm idea of what I was looking for: is there an answer to the Second Law of Thermodynamics and entropy or are we doomed to a collapsing Universe?
Dr. Greene was pretty firm in his answer: Doomed. With a capital ‘D’.
The obvious successes of evolution and the proliferation of information in the universe notwithstanding, eventually, in a billion billion billion years our Universe will go quiet with the disappearance of the final pockets of low entropy space.
And if there was any doubt about this turn of events, the confirmation of the Higgs Field not long ago showed us that all protons in the Universe will decay and take the physical world as we know it along with them.
The math confirms it.
The news was not enough to discourage Greene. He feels there is so much more to learn about us and our world, so much to appreciate about the accident we call life, that we should awaken each day to celebrate what’s here and what’s all around us.
Because I am reading this in the fall I kinda know what he’s talking about. The giant red maples on my street are so beautiful this time of the year I hardly know where to look first.
“Until the End of Time” is a nausea-inducing read not because of the message, and certainly not because of the quality of the writing because the writing is for the most part excellent.
Greene loses me a little in the discussion of religion and human kind’s frailties.
He moves beautifully from the tiniest particles in matter to the giant spaces between solar systems, and even galaxies; from today to the distant future. It’s the going back and forth that made me a little nauseous and actually happy to finally put the book down.
I think it didn’t help that he used the metaphor of the Empire State Building in New York to demonstrate how little we have gone on the eventual voyage of the universe from the Big Bang to the Big End.
Constantly looking up at the heights above and then looking down from the top — the end of the story — made this a vertigo-inducing affair.
I knew about the eventual demise of our solar system. I did not know what physicists believe to be the end game. How unlikely they believe Mind will survive even in a disembodied form.
When you meet Greene in person he is a very amiable scientist. We were lucky to have heard him interviewed at a theatre in Toronto just days before the city was locked down to reduce the spread of COVID-19 among the population.
And wasn’t there a touch of irony?… (mais)