📚 2 Books mentioned in "The Edge of Our Understanding with Brian Greene & Neil deGrasse Tyson" of StarTalk Radio

We had my friend and colleague Brian Green theoretical physicist professor of physics and math at Columbia University author of The Very best-selling The Elegant Universe followed by The Fabric of the Cosmos followed by The Hidden Reality.

Neil deGrasse Tyson introduces Brian Greene, highlighting his role as a theoretical physicist and mentioning him as the author of the best-selling book 'The Elegant Universe', among others.

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so why not a particle that makes up the smallest particles instead of this idea of a vibration or string thing that causes it to be more easily understood right and Brian let me let me prepend that by asking are you proposing that everything's made of strings just so that it's more elegant now certainly not the man who wrote the book The Elegant Universe is this a philosophical motivating force for you because Kepler had his own philosophically motivating mathematics where the planets were platonic solids and it was beautiful because it was it was math and it was and are you why do why what confidence do we have that you are describing reality and not a reality you want to be true so that the universe becomes elegant so you can sell more books we're hip to you you you in the industrial string complex so that is a key question not the uh the selling of the books one but the what is it one of aesthetics in in making these decisions

Neil deGrasse Tyson refers to Brian Greene as the author of 'The Elegant Universe' while questioning his bias towards elegant theories. This indicates the book is used as a reference point.

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And your books are still out there: The Elegant Universe, the other side of the cosmos, The Hidden Reality, but the most recent is Until the End of Time, and my most favorite.

In this segment, Neil deGrasse Tyson refers to several books authored by Brian Greene, including 'The Elegant Universe', 'The other side of the cosmos', 'The Hidden Reality', and his latest work, 'Until the End of Time'.

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We had my friend and colleague Brian Green theoretical physicist professor of physics and math at Columbia University author of The Very best-selling The Elegant Universe followed by The Fabric of the Cosmos followed by The Hidden Reality.

In this segment, Neil deGrasse Tyson introduces Brian Greene, highlighting that he is the author of the book 'The Fabric of the Cosmos', among others.

► Watch this excerpt