Format:
Book
Title:
The grand design / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.
Author:
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
Call Number:
530.142 Hawking
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Bantam Books, c2010.
Description:
198 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Summary:
Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The drunkard's walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A brief history of time) 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.
Subjects:
Unified field theories.
Mathematical physics.
Superstring theories.
Other Author:
Mlodinow, Leonard, 1954-
ISBN:
9780553384666 (trade)
0553805371
9780553805376