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Suggestions for Further Reading

The general and technical literature on space and time is vast. The references below, mostly suited to a general reader but a few requiring more advanced training, have proven helpful to me and are a good start for the reader who wants to explore further various developments addressed in this book.

Albert, David.
Quantum Mechanics and Experience.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.

———.
Time and Chance.
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The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence.
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Barbour, Julian.
The End of Time.
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———and Herbert Pfister. Mach's Principle. Boston: Birkhäuser, 1995.

Barrow, John.
The Book of Nothing.
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Bartusiak, Marcia. Einstein's Unfinished Symphony. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2000.

Bell, John.
Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics.
Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Blanchard, Ph., and D. Giulini, E. Joos, C. Kiefer, I.-O Stamatescu. Decoherence: Theo
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Berlin: Springer, 2000.

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Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale.
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Cole, K. C. The Hole in the Universe. New York: Harcourt, 2001.

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Davies, Paul.
About Time.
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———.
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———.
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———.
The Whole Shebang.
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——— and Roger Penrose.
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———, Kip Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris, and Alan Lightman.
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Spacetime.
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———.
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———.
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———.
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———.
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BRIAN GREENE

THE FABRIC OF THE COSMOS

Brian Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He joined the physics faculty at Cornell University in 1990, was appointed to a full professorship in 1995, and in 1996 joined Columbia University where he is professor of physics and mathematics. He has lectured at both a general and a technical level in more than twenty-five countries and is widely regarded for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City.

ALSO BY BRIAN GREENE

The Elegant Universe:
Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions,
and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY 2005

Copyright © 2004 by Brian R. Greene

Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Greene, B. (Brian).
The fabric of the cosmos: space, time, and the texture of reality / Brian Greene.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Cosmology—Popular works. I. Title.
QB982.G74 2004
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