The Trouble with Physics The Trouble with Physics

The Trouble with Physics

The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2008
28 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
416
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Books Ltd
SIZE
2
MB

Customer Reviews

Gareth Mawer ,

The Trouble with Physics

A brilliant exposition by Lee Smolin on how string theory is inadequate as an ultimate theory and the need for the physics community to change culturally so an ultimate theory can be found. The book is hard going in places but the effort needed to understand his arguments is well worth it. The difficulty is related to the subject matter, Lee Smolin explains everything as simply as possible without oversimplifying the physics.

It’s the best physics books I have read. Anyone with an interest in physics, or are trying to grapple with foundational questions about the nature of our universe, should read this book.

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