In this exhilarating new book, Brian Greene explores our most current understanding of the universe, its deepest laws of nature, and our continuing quest to know more. "The Hidden Reality" reveals how major developments in different branches of fundamental theoretical physics - relativistic, quantum, cosmological, unified, computational - have all led us to consider one or another variety of parallel universe. In some, they are separated from us by enormous stretches of space or time, in others they're hovering millimetres away, in others still the very notion of their location proves to be a concept beyond our reach. Most extraordinarily, Greene shows how all of these parallel universe proposals emerge unbidden from the mathematics of theories developed to explain conventional data and observations of the cosmos. This is a life-changing book that gives us a true sense of the astounding possibilities of modern scientific investigation.

B·格林在哈佛大學獲得本科學位，然後取得牛津大學的羅德奬學金，並獲得博士學位。1990年，他加入瞭康奈爾大學的物理係，並於1995年成為正教授。1996年，他成為哥倫比亞大學的數學和物理教授。三十多年來，他在七個大洲的土地上開展瞭許多科普和專業講座，公認在超弦理論中有過許多開拓性的發現。他的第一本書《宇宙的琴弦》，是全美暢銷書籍，並獲得瞭普利策奬。他最近的一本書《宇宙的結構》也是全美暢銷書籍。他住在紐約市的安第斯鎮。