Part V: Unification in the Twenty-First Centuryīeginning with a brief consideration of classical physics, which concentrates on the major conflicts in physics, Greene establishes a historical context for string theory as a necessary means of integrating the probabilistic world of the standard model of particle physics and the deterministic Newtonian physics of the macroscopic world.Part IV: String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime.Part II: The Dilemma of Space, Time, and the Quanta.Preface (with an additional preface to the 2003 edition).A new edition was released in 2003, with an updated preface. In 2000, it won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory is a book by Brian Greene published in 1999, which introduces string and superstring theory, and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings.
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