ch. 1. Tied up with string
pt. 2. Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta
ch. 2. Space, time, and the eye of the beholder
ch. 3. Of warps and ripples
ch. 4. Microscopic weirdness
ch. 5. Need for a new theory: general relativity vs. quantum mechanics
ch. 6. Nothing but music: the essentials of superstring theory
ch. 7. "Super" in superstrings
ch. 8. More dimensions than meet the eye
ch. 9. Smoking gun: experimental signatures
pt. 4. String theory and the fabric of spacetime
ch. 11. Tearing the fabric of space
ch. 12. Beyond strings: in search of m-theory
ch. 13. Black holes: a string/m-theory perspective
ch. 14. Reflections on cosmology
pt. 5. Unification in the twenty-first century
From the Manuscript - First edition.
ch. 1. Tied up with string
pt. 2. Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta
ch. 2. Space, time, and the eye of the beholder
ch. 3. Of warps and ripples
ch. 4. Microscopic weirdness
ch. 5. Need for a new theory : general relativity vs. quantum mechanics
ch. 6. Nothing but music : the essentials of superstring theory
ch. 7. "Super" in superstrings
ch. 8. More dimensions than meet the eye
ch. 9. Smoking gun : experimental signatures
pt. 4. String theory and the fabric of spacetime
ch. 11. Tearing the fabric of space
ch. 12. Beyond strings : in search of m-theory
ch. 13. Black holes : a string/m-theory perspective
ch. 14. Reflections on cosmology
pt. 5. Unification in the twenty-first century
