The grand design / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.
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TextPublisher: New York : Bantam Books, c2010Description: 198 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cmISBN: 9780553805376 (hbk.); 0553805371 (hbk.); 9780553907070 (e-book); 0553907077 (e-book); 9780593058299 (hbk.); 0593058291 (hbk.)Subject(s): Unified field theories -- Popular works | Superstring theories -- Popular works | Mathematical physics -- Popular worksDDC classification: 530.142 LOC classification: QC794.6.G7 | H385 2010| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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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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