The grand design / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.

By:

Hawking, S. W (Stephen W.)

Contributor(s):

Mlodinow, Leonard, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Bantam Books, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 198 p : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cmISBN:

9780553805376 :
0553805371

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

530.1/42 22

LOC classification:

QC20.5 .H379 2010

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Meaford Public Library Non-Fiction	530 .1 42 HAW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		56524

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Includes bibliographical references and 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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