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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461312003321

Autore

Kaku Michio

Titolo

Hyperspace [[electronic resource] ] : a scientific odyssey through parallel universes, time warps, and the tenth dimension / / Michio Kaku ; illustrations by Robert O'Keefe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994

ISBN

1-283-12143-3

9786613121431

0-19-987442-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

O'KeefeRobert

Disciplina

530.1/42

Soggetti

Kaluza-Klein theories

Superstring theories

Hyperspace

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Entering the fifth dimension -- pt. 2. Unification in ten dimensions -- pt. 3. Wormholes : gateways to another universe? -- pt. 4. Masters of hyperspace.

Sommario/riassunto

Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku, author of the widely acclaimed Beyond Einstein and a leading theoretical physicist, offers the first book-length tour of the most exciting (and perhaps most bizarre) work in modern physics, work which includes r