How long does it take to read The Fabric of the Cosmos?
Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene takes about 10 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 51 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 592 pages, about 162,800 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Brian Greene's popular science book asks what space and time really are and whether they are physical things or human abstractions. Organized in five parts, it moves from the spinning-bucket puzzle and relativity through quantum mechanics, the question of whether time flows and why it seems to point in one direction, and the origin and early moments of the universe. It then turns to the clash between general relativity and quantum theory, and how string theory and M-theory might resolve it. The final part considers experimental tests and speculative ideas such as teleportation and time travel.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Cosmologia, Popular works, Kosmologie, Cosmology, Nonfiction, Science
