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Einstein’s Dream

The Search for a Unified Theory of the Universe

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  1. Barry Parker
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Goal

    • Barry Parker
    Pages 1-20

  3. Warped Space-Time

    • Barry Parker
    Pages 21-47

  4. Early Unified Field Theories

    • Barry Parker
    Pages 49-71

  5. Star Death

    • Barry Parker
    Pages 73-96

  6. The Ultimate Abyss: The Black Hole

    • Barry Parker
    Pages 97-132

  7. The Early Universe

    • Barry Parker
    Pages 133-169

  8. Cosmological Controversy

    • Barry Parker
    Pages 171-197

  9. The Final Fate of the Universe

    • Barry Parker
    Pages 199-212

  10. The World of Particles and Fields

    • Barry Parker
    Pages 213-251

  11. A Unified Theory of the Universe

    • Barry Parker
    Pages 253-270

  12. Epilogue

    • Barry Parker
    Pages 271-275

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 277-287
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Thirty years ago Albert Einstein died, his dream of a theory that would unify the universe unfulfilled. He spent the last decades of his life searching for such a theory-a theory that would explain everything from elementary particles and their interac­ tions to the overall structure of the universe. But he failed, not because he didn't try hard enough, but because the attempt was ahead of its time. When Einstein worked on the problem liter­ ally nothing was known about black holes, white holes, sin­ gularities, the Big Bang explosion and the early universe, quarks, gauge invariance, and weak and strong nuclear forces. Today we know that all these things are important in relation to a unified theory, and that they must be incorporated in and explained by such a theory. Thus, in a sense, our problem is much more complex today than it was in Einstein's day. But scientists have persevered and as a result we are now tan­ talizingly close to achieving this long-sought goal. Important breakthroughs have been made. In this book we will look at these breakthroughs and at recent unified theories-theories that go by the names supergravity, superstrings, GUTs, and twistor theory. In order to understand the problem, however, we must begin at the beginning.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Einstein’s Dream

  • Book Subtitle: The Search for a Unified Theory of the Universe

  • Authors: Barry Parker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2764-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Barry Parker 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42343-7Published: 01 January 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2764-4Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 287

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Popular Science, general, Physics, general

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