"An in-depth yet marvelously accessible look inside the perplexing world of modern theoretical physics and cosmology . . . Greene presents a lucid, intriguing, and triumphantly understandable state-of-the-art look at the universe."
--"Publishers Weekly" (Starred review)
If extraterrestrials landed tomorrow and demanded to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing, we could do worse than to hand them a copy of this book.
Timothy Ferris,
The New York Times Book Review Few living writers write so lucidly about such complicated stuff. In
Greene s prose, cutting-edge cosmology and particle physics become something a plucky and well-rested reader can apprehend. . . Greene might be the best intermediary I ve found between the sparkling, absolute zero world of mathematics and the warm, clumsy world of human language.
Anthony Doerr,
Boston Globe Mr. Greene has a gift for elucidating big ideas . . . Exciting and rewarding . . . [
The Hidden Reality] captures and engages the imagination.
Janet Maslin, The New York Times
It's impossible to summarize every step of Greene's balletic footwork, by which, like some multi-limbed Asian deity, he dances into being each different theoretical framework that could support multiple universes. . . His arguments are constructed like classical cathedrals, with intricate arches and buttresses that all uphold the central spire. Sometimes you think he's lost in the details of some sculpted gargoyle, only to realize how essential to the whole structure this particular feature is.
Paul di Filippo, Barnes and Noble Review
[Greene] leads the general reader on an excursion to the farthest and most mind-bending reaches of speculative physics . . . An exhilarating if sometimes vertigo-inducing journey.
Alden Mudge,
Bookpage An in-depth yet marvelously accessible look inside the perplexing world of modern theoretical physics and cosmology . . . Greene presents a lucid, intriguing, and triumphantly understandable state-of-the-art look at the universe.
Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
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"If extraterrestrials landed tomorrow and demanded to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing, we could do worse than to hand them a copy of this book."
--Timothy Ferris,
The New York Times Book Review"Few living writers write so lucidly about such complicated stuff. In
Greene's prose, cutting-edge cosmology and particle physics become something a plucky and well-rested reader can apprehend. . . Greene might be the best intermediary I've found between the sparkling, absolute zero world of mathematics and the warm, clumsy world of human language."
--Anthony Doerr,
Boston Globe "Mr. Greene has a gift for elucidating big ideas . . . Exciting and rewarding . . . [
The Hidden Reality] captures and engages the imagination."
--Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"It's impossible to summarize every step of Greene's balletic footwork, by which, like some multi-limbed Asian deity, he dances into being each different theoretical framework that could support multiple universes. . . His arguments are constructed like classical cathedrals, with intricate arches and buttresses that all uphold the central spire. Sometimes you think he's lost in the details of some sculpted gargoyle, only to realize how essential to the whole structure this particular feature is."
--Paul di Filippo, Barnes and Noble Review
"[Greene] leads the general reader on an excursion to the farthest and most mind-bending reaches of speculative physics . . . An exhilarating--if sometimes vertigo-inducing--journey."
--Alden Mudge,
Bookpage "An in-depth yet marvelously accessible look inside the perplexing world of modern theoretical physics and cosmology . . . Greene presents a lucid, intriguing, and triumphantly understandable state-of-the-art look at the universe."
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Publishers Weekly (Starred review)