Hawking, S. W. <br/><br/>
The grand design / 
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. 
 - New York :  Bantam Books,  c2010. 
 - 198 p. :  ill. (chiefly col.) ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780553805376 (hbk.) 0553805371 (hbk.) 9780553907070 (e-book) 0553907077 (e-book) 9780593058299 (hbk.) 0593058291 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010287390 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Unified field theories--Popular works.<br/>Superstring theories--Popular works.<br/>Mathematical physics--Popular works.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC794.6.G7  / H385 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.142