| Description |
1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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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. |
| 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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Description based on print version record. |
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Unified field theories.
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Mathematical physics.
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Superstring theories.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Mlodinow, Leonard, 1954-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.). grand design. 1st ed. New York : Bantam Books, 2010 9780553805376 (OCoLC)654183639 |
| ISBN |
9780553907070 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB) |
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0553907077 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB) |
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