He won pulitzer prize for the book, which is kind of rare for a book on such a specialized subject. The language is truly simple and layman’s level. The examples and illustrations truly explanatory. Briane Greene’s area is string theory, which is an attempt to reconcile the differences between Theory of Relativity and Quantum theory.
Kedar has a review of Brian Greene’s “The Elegant Universe”. NOVA made a great documentary of the book and it is available online.
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Deccan Journalist
Jul 29th, 2008 at 2:35 pm | #
One of the real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations. This is a young scientist, surely he will bring some break through in science.