The grand design / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
- Bib ID:
- 4983171
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Bantam Books, c2010
- 198 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780553805376
- 0553805371
- Summary:
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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."
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mlodinow, Leonard, 1954-
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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