Brian Green's book "The Elegant Universe" is a fascinating journey through modern physics, which is closer than ever before to understanding how the Universe works. The quantum world and Einstein's theory of relativity, the Kaluza-Klein hypothesis and additional dimensions, the theory of superstrings and branes, the Big Bang and multiverses - this is not a complete list of issues discussed. Using clear analogies, the author translates complex ideas of modern physics and mathematics into images that are understandable to everyone and to everyone. Brian Greene demystifies string theory to reveal an 11-dimensional universe in which the fabric of space is torn and repaired, and all matter is generated by the vibrations of microscopic strings.