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  The Elegant Universe
Brian Greene, 2003

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Count Alfred Korzybski

With help from the Polish Count Alfred Korzybski's "Science and Sanity," (non-Aristotelean logic), the concepts of String Theory and Philogic (Philosophical Logic) were first developed by Brunardot, in the Spring of 1955, when Philip Morrison suggested that Einstein was the only person that would understand.  Einstein died early in the morning, several days later, while Brunardot was driving from Ithaca to Princeton.

Years later, these concepts were misapplied by post modern theoretical physicists as a theory trying to unite the metaphysical forces of academic, theoretical physics, which physics theory is but a quantitative, axiomatic discipline searching in vain for a first postulate.

The Elliptical Constant is the "Rosetta Stone" of a theory that goes beyond quantitative to Philogic (Philosophical Logic) and Oscillation Theory, which with simple geometry and algebra
 — and a bit of reduction — defines the locus of Reality and the ten forms of oscillation (strings) — that define dark energy that manifests as the seminal quantum of space — which is pluperfect reduction that combines the duality of maximal simplicity and maximal complexity.
 

"Seek simplicity; and
....... . . Natural integers."

 

 

 

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The Elegant Universe

Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
1999, 2003, Brian Greene
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  Annotator's (Epsilon=One) Comments  
  2003 Preface  
  Preface (1999)  
  Chapter Notes  
  Glossary of Scientific Terms  
  References and Suggestions for Further Reading  
    Part I The Edge of Knowledge             
Chapter 1   Tied Up with String
•   Section   1 Tied Up with String 
•   Section   2 The Three Conflicts
   Section   3 The Universe at Its Smallest: What We Know About Matter a
•   Section   4 The Forces, or, Where's the Photon? a
•   Section   5 String Theory: The Basic Idea
•   Section   6 String Theory as the Unified Theory of Everything
•   Section   7 The State of String Theory
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    Part II The Dilemma of Space, Time, and the Quanta  
Chapter 2  Space, Time, and the Eye of the Beholder
•   Section    1 Space, Time, and the Eye of the Beholder
•   Section    2 Intuition and Its Flaws
•   Section    3 The Principle of Relativity
•   Section    4 The Speed of Light
•   Section    5 Truth and Consequences
•   Section    6 The Effect on Time: Part I
•   Section    7 The Effect on Time: Part II
•   Section    8 Life on the Run
•   Section    9 Who Is Moving, Anyway?
•   Section  10 Motion's Effect on Space
•   Section  11 Motion through Spacetime
•   Section  12 What about E=mcē? a
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  Chapter 3 Of Warps and Ripples
•   Section    1 Of Warps and Ripples 
•   Section    2 Newton's View of Gravity
•   Section    3 The Incompatibity of Newtonian Gravity and Spatial Relativity
•   Section    4 Einstein's Happiest Thought
•   Section    5 Acceleration and the Warping of Space and Time
•   Section    6 The Basics of General Relativity
•   Section    7 A Few Caveats
•   Section    8 Conflict Resolution
•   Section    9 The Warping of Time, Revisited
•   Section  10 Experimental Verification of General Relativity
•   Section  11 Black Holes, the Big Bang and the Expansion of Space
•   Section  12 Is General Relativity Right?
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  Chapter 4 Microscopic Weirdness
•   Section    1 Microscopic Weirdness
•   Section    2 The Quantum Framework a
•   Section    3 It's Too Hot in the Kitchen a
•   Section    4 Making Lumps at the Turn of the Century a
•   Section    5 What Are the Lumps? a
•   Section    6 Is It a Wave or Is It a Particle? a
•   Section    7 Matter Particles Are Also Waves
•   Section    8 Waves of What? a
•   Section    9 Feynman's Perspective a
•   Section  10 Quantum Weirdness a
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  Chapter 5 The Need for a New Theory:
        General Relativity vs. Quantum Mechanics
•   Section   1 The Need for a New Theory: General Relativity vs. Quantum Mechanics a
•   Section   2 The Heart of Quantum Mechanics a
•   Section   3 Quantum Field Theory a
•   Section   4 Messenger Particles a
•   Section   5 Gauge Symmetry
•   Section   6 General Relativity vs. Quantum Mechanics a
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Part III The Cosmic Symphony
  Chapter 6 Nothing but Music: The Essentials of Superstring Theory  
•   Section    1 Nothing but Music: The Essentials of Superstring Theory a
•   Section    2 A Brief History of String Theory a
•   Section    3 The Greeks' Atoms, Again? a
•   Section    4 Unification through String Theory  
•   Section    5 The Music of String Theory a
•   Section    6 Three Consequences of Stiff Strings 
•   Section    7 Gravity and Quantum Mechanics in String Theory
•   Section    8 The Rough Answer
•   Section    9 A Slight of Hand?
•   Section  10 The More Precise Answer
•   Section  11 Beyond Strings a
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  Chapter 7 The "Super" in Superstrings
•   Section   1 The "Super" in Superstrings
•   Section   2 The Nature of Physical Law
•   Section   3 Spin
•   Section   4 Supersymmetry and Superpartners
•   Section   5 The Case for Supersymmetry: Prior to String Theory
•   Section   6 Supersymmetry in String Theory
•   Section   7 A Super-Embarrassment of Riches
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  Chapter 8 More Dimensions Than Meet the Eye
•   Section   1 More Dimensions Than Meet the Eye a
•   Section   2 The Illusion of the Familiar
•   Section   3 Kaluza's Idea and Klein's Refinement
•   Section   4 Comings and Goings on a Garden Hose
•   Section   5 Unification in Higher Dimensions a
•   Section   6 Modern Kaluza-Klein Theory a
•   Section   7 More Dimensions and String Theory
•   Section   8 Some Questions
•   Section   9 The Physical Implications of Extra Dimensions a
•   Section 10 What Do the Curled-Up Dimensions Look Like? a
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Chapter 9  The Smoking Gun: Experimental Signatures
•   Section   1 The Smoking Gun: Experimental Signatures
•   Section   2 Crossfire a
•   Section   3 The Road to Experiment
•   Section   4 Exhausting Possibilities
•   Section   5 Superparticles
•   Section   6 Fractionally Charged Particles
•   Section   7 Some Longer Shots
•   Section   8 An Appraisal
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    Part IV String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime  
•   Section    1 Quantum Geometry
•   Section    2 The Heart of Riemannian Geometry
•   Section    3 A Cosmological Playground
•   Section    4 The Essential New Feature
•   Section    5 The Physics of Wound Strings
•   Section    6 The Spectrum of Strings States a
•   Section    7 A Debate
•   Section    8 Three Questions
•   Section    9 Two Interrelated Notions of Distance in String Theory a
•   Section  10 A Minimum Size a
•   Section  11 How General Is This Conclusion? a
•   Section  12 Mirror Symmetry a
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•   Section   1 Tearing the Fabric of Space a
•   Section   2 A Tantalizing Possibility a
•   Section   3 The Mirror Perspective a
   Section   4 Inching Forward a
•   Section    5 A Strategy Emerges
•   Section    7 Of Six-Packs and Working Weekends
•   Section    8 A Moment of Truth a
•   Section    9 Witten's Approach a
•   Section  10 Consequences
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Chapter 12  Beyond Strings: In Search of M-Theory
•   Section    1 Beyond Strings: In Search of M-Theory
•   Section    2 A Summary of the Second Superstring Revolution
•   Section    3 An Approximation Method a
•   Section    4 A Classical Example of Perturbation Theory a
•   Section    5 A Perturbative Approach to String Theory a
•   Section    6 Is the Ballpark in the Ballpark? a
•   Section    7 The Equations of String Theory
•   Section    8 Duality
•   Section    9 The Power of Symmetry
•   Section  10 Duality in String Theory
•   Section  11 A Summary, So Far
•   Section  12 Supergravity
•   Section  13 Glimmers of M-Theory
•   Section  14 M-Theory and the Web of Interconnections
•   Section  15 The Overall Picture a
•   Section  16 A Surprising Feature of M-Theory: Democracy in Extension a
•   Section  17 Does Any of This Solve the Unanswered Questions in String Theory? a
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Chapter 13  Black Holes: A String/M-Theory Perspective
•   Section    1 Black Holes: A String/M-Theory Perspective a
   Section    2 Black Holes and Elementary Particles a
•   Section    3 Does String Theory Allow Us to Go Forward? a
   Section    4 Tearing the Fabric of Space—with Conviction a
•   Section    5 A Flurry of E-Mail
•   Section    6 Returning to Black Holes and Elementary Particles a
•   Section    7 "Melting" Black Hole a
•   Section    8 Black Hole Entropy a
•   Section    9 How Black is Black? a
•   Section  10 Enter String Theory a
   Section  11 The Remaining Mysteries of Black Holes a
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Chapter 14  Reflections on Cosmology                     
•   Section    1 Reflections on Cosmology
•   Section    2 The Standard Model of Cosmology a
•   Section    3 Putting the Big Bang to the Test a
•   Section    4 From the Planck Time to a Hundredth of a Second ATB
•   Section    5 A Cosmological Puzzle a
•   Section    6 Inflation a
•   Section    7 Cosmology and Superstring Theory a
   Section    8 In the Beginning There Was a Planck-Sized Nugget a
•   Section    9 Why Three? a
   Section  10 Cosmology and Calabi-Yau Shapes a
•   Section  11 Before the Beginning? a
•   Section  12 M-Theory and the Merging of All Forces a
   Section  13 Cosmological Speculation and the Ultimate Theory a
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    Part V Unification in the Twenty-First Century  
Chapter 15  Prospects                    
•   Section   1 Prospects
•   Section   2 What is the Fundamental Principle Underlying String Theory?
Section   3 What Are Space and Time, Really, and Can We Do without Them? a
•   Section   4 Will String Theory Lead to a Reformulation of Quantum Mechanics? a
•   Section   5 Can String Theory Be Experimentally Tested?
•   Section   6 Are There Limits to Explanation?
•   Section   7 Reaching for the Stars
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Glossary of Scientific Terms a

Notes: Chapters 1 thru 15 combined a

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