Brian Greene won the Aventis 2000 Science Book Prize with The Elegant
Universe (Cape, 1999). So how does a superstring theorist spend 拢10 000?
Cat’s cradles of galactic dimensions? Did New Scientist pick the winner? Well,
yes and no. We tipped Time, Love, Memory, but hedged our bets by saying the
judges would pick Greene.
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