The Elegant Universe

This popular-science book explains special and general relativity and quantum mechanics, then the conflict between them, before presenting string theory as a candidate for a unified description of nature. Greene describes vibrating strings, extra spatial dimensions, Calabi-Yau geometries, and the idea that apparently different theories may be aspects of one framework. He discusses what a successful theory would have to predict and the difficulty of testing it. The book is an exposition of theoretical physics for general readers, not a textbook of calculations and not a history of every physicist involved.

Quarter-bound in red cloth with colour pattern printed paper sides. Black slipcase and endpapers.