The grand design /
Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions-- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and n...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bantam Books,
[2010]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions-- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?-- and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that fill in many (but not all) the blank spots in quantum physics. This collection is known as the "Grand Unified Field Theories." |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 198 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780553805376 : 0553805371 |