The Grand Design

The Grand Design
ISBN-10
0553840886
ISBN-13
9780553840889
Series
The Grand Design
Category
Science
Pages
198
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
National Geographic Books
Authors
Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

Description

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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