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The grand design / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.

By: Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.).
Contributor(s): Mlodinow, Leonard, 1954-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2010Edition: 1st ed.General Notes: Includes index.Description: 198 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780553805376 :; 0553805371.Subject(s): Unified field theories | Mathematical physics | Superstring theoriesDDC classification: 530.1/42
Contents:
The mystery of being -- The rule of law -- What is reality? -- Alternative histories -- The theory of everything -- Choosing our universe -- The apparent miracle -- The grand design.
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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Includes index.

The mystery of being -- The rule of law -- What is reality? -- Alternative histories -- The theory of everything -- Choosing our universe -- The apparent miracle -- 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 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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