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The Grand Design

Hawking, Stephen, 1942- Book - 2010 Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Physics / Hawking, Stephen, 530.142 Ha 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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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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PUBLISHED
New York : Bantam Books, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 198 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780553805376
0553805371

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Mlodinow, Leonard, 1954-

SUBJECTS
Unified field theories.
Mathematical physics.
Superstring theories.