The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science and what comes next

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The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science and what comes next

Author:

Smolin, Lee, 1955-

ISBN:

9780141018355

Personal Author:

Smolin, Lee, 1955-

Publication Information:

London : Penguin, 2008.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 392 ; 20 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2006; London: Allen Lane, 2007.

Contents:

The unfinished revolution -- A brief history of string theory -- Beyond string theory -- Learning from experience.

Subject Term:

Physics -- Philosophy.

String models.

Physics -- Methodology.

Physical laws.

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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.

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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