Trouble with Physics

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Trouble with Physics

The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

Philosophy of science Popular science Physics Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)

Author: Lee Smolin

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Language: English

Published by: Penguin

Published on: 28th February 2008

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 932 Kb

ISBN: 9780141919638


Book Overview

The Trouble with Physics is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange and bizarre predictions of string theory, full of unseen dimensions and multiple universes.

Author's Perspective

Lee Smolin not only provides a brilliant layman’s overview of current research as we attempt to build a ‘theory of everything’, but also questions many of the assumptions that lie behind string theory. In doing so, he describes some of the daring, outlandish ideas that will propel research in years to come.

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