BOOKS & WRITINGS
Brian Greene is well-known for his general-level writings. His first book, The Elegant Universe, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and won Britain’s top prize for a book on science. His second book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, inspired the Washington Post to call him “the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today.” Together with his most recent book, The Hidden Reality, Greene’s books have spent 68 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold over two million copies worldwide.
Until the End of Time
A new book by Brian Greene
From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity’s search for purpose.
Until the End of Time is Brian Greene’s breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to understand it. Greene takes us on a journey across time, from our most refined understanding of the universe’s beginning, to the closest science can take us to the very end. He explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos, and how our minds, in coming to understand their own impermanence, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in narrative, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and our longing for the eternal. Through a series of nested stories that explain distinct but interwoven layers of reality–from quantum mechanics to consciousness to black holes–Greene provides us with a clearer sense of how we came to be, a finer picture of where we are now, and a firmer understanding of where we are headed. With this grand tour of the universe, beginning to end, Brian Greene allows us all to grasp and appreciate our fleeting but utterly exquisite moment in the cosmos.
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GREENE’S OTHER BOOKS
The Elegant Universe
A rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
An irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered
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The Hidden Reality
A remarkable adventure through a world more vast and strange than anything we could have imagined
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Icarus at the Edge of Time
A futuristic reimagining of the classic Greek myth, for younger audiences
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OP-ED WRITINGS
Brian Greene occasionally writes general interest editorials and essays for publications such as The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Newsweek, Wired Magazine, and others.
The Detection of Gravitational Waves: What’s Next?
Smithsonian magazine, April 2016
The Detection of Gravitational Waves Was a Scientific Breakthrough, but What’s Next?
Scientists are sitting on top of the world after this monumental discovery and are eager to keep exploring the universe. Read more ›
The Theory of Relativity, Then and Now
Smithsonian Magazine, October, 2015
Albert Einstein’s breakthrough from a century ago was out of this world. Now it seems surprisingly down-to-earth. Read more ›
To Unlock Deflation Puzzle, Mind Your PV = nRT’s
New York Times, January 31, 2015
Yep, it’s for real. The law firm representing the N.F.L. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison) has reached out to Columbia University’s department of physics to recruit an expert on “gas physics” to help determine, as has been reported, the “environmental impacts on inflated footballs.” Read more ›
GREENE’S OTHER PIECES
Read some of Brian Greene’s most popular articles from the past decade below
How the Higgs Boson Was Found
Smithsonian magazine, July 2013
Before the elusive particle could be discovered—a smashing success—it had to be imagined. Read more ›
Welcome to the Multiverse
Newsweek, May 21, 2012
Recently, the possibility of alternate universes has shifted from the outskirts of physics to the mainstream… Read more ›
Put a Little Science in Your Life
New York Times, June 1, 2008
A couple of years ago I received a letter from an American soldier in Iraq…the reason for his writing was to tell me that in that hostile and lonely environment, a book I’d written had become a kind of lifeline.
That Famous Equation and You
New York Times, September 30, 2005
E = mc² has become the most recognized icon of the modern scientific era. Yet for all its symbolic worth, the equation’s intimate presence in everyday life goes largely unnoticed. There is nothing you can do, not a move you can make, not a thought you can have, that doesn’t tap directly into E = mc².
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“…a lucid, intriguing, and triumphantly understandable state-of-the-art look at the universe.”
“Greene’s gravitational pull rivals a black hole’s”
“…a rare accomplishment in science writing for a popular audience.”
“[A] remarkable book. Greene has brought an absorbing field of inquiry to vivid life.”
“…exciting and rewarding…captures and engages the imagination.”
“…a wonderful way to coax your brain into a host of strange and unfamiliar domains.”
“Brian Greene is the new Hawking, only better.”