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The Trouble With Physics The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Book information

ISBN: 9780141018355
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 530.1
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 392
Weight: 312g
Height: 195mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 27mm