Grand design/ [by] Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Material type: TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: London: Transworld Publishers, c2010Description: 251 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780553819229 (pbk. ):
- 23rd 530.142 HAW/G
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Includes index.
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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