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  title info:
    title: Einstein's dream
    sub title: the search for a unified theory of the universe
  title info:
    title: Search for a unified theory of the universe
  name:
    name part: Parker, Barry R.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 1986
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 287 pages) : illustrations
  table of contents: 1: The goal -- The search for meaning -- Einstein's dream -- 2: Warped space-time -- Curved space -- Einstein and warped space-time -- Extreme warping -- 3: Early unified field theories -- Farada, Maxwell, and the electromagnetic field -- Early attempts at unification -- Einstein's unified field theory -- 4: Star death -- Eddington -- The life cycle of a star -- Chandrasekhar and the white dwarfs -- Beyond the white dwarf -- Reflection -- 5: The ultimate abyss: the black hole -- Oppenheimer and continuing collapse -- Collapse of a star to a black hole -- Inside a black hole -- Other types of black holes -- Searching for black holes -- Other black hole candidates -- A realistic look at the exotic possibilities -- Where the theory breaks down -- The discovery of evaporating black holes -- The link between general relativity and quantum mechanics -- 6: The early universe -- Discovery of the expanding universe -- Back to the big bang -- The ultimate singularity -- Inflation -- The Hadron Era -- The Lepton Era -- The Radiation Era -- The cosmic background radiation -- The Galaxy Era -- Reflection -- 7: Cosmological controversy -- The age of the universe -- The redshift controversy -- Rival cosmologies -- Varying G cosmologies and cosmic numbers -- Antimatter and other cosmologies -- Other universes -- 8: The final fate of the universe -- The missing mass -- Other methods of determining if the universe is open or closed -- Fate of the closed universe -- Bounce -- Fate of the open universe -- 9: The world of particles and fields -- Dirac's equation -- The infinities -- Renormalization -- Yukawa -- Gauge theory -- The weak interactions -- Quantum chromodynamics -- 10: Unified theory of the universe -- Supergravity and superstrings -- Twistors and heaven (H space) -- 11: Epilogue -- The future -- The new Einstein.
  note: Barry Parker.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Einstein, Albert
      name part: 1879-1955
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Einstein, Albert
      name part: 1879-1955
  subject:
    topic: Unified field theories
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Waves & Wave Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Unified field theories
  classification: QC173.7 .P36 1986beb
  classification: 530.142
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Einstein's dream
    name:
      name part: Parker, Barry R.
    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., c1986
    identifier: (OCoLC)49714097
  identifier: 9781429494274 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1429494271 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781489927644 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1489927646 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 070919
    record change date: 20260420213454.8
    record identifier: in00003510281
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng