Podcast: StarTalk Radio
Episode: The Edge of Our Understanding with Brian Greene & Neil deGrasse Tyson
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
The elegant universe
Buy on Amazon"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."
The fabric of the cosmos
Buy on Amazon"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."
The elegant universe
Buy on Amazon"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"
The elegant universe
Buy on Amazon"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."