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The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything Book

In days of yore, educated men and women would avidly follow new developments in the world of science; these days it seems to be too much trouble--relativity was bad enough, but "N-dimensional space"? Fortunately for those of us who have trouble visualizing parallel parking, much less quarks and gluons, John Gribbin is back with an up-to-date primer on subatomic physics. The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything refers as much to the reader's search for understanding as to the physicist's search for clever theories and experimental evidence to back them up, and Gribbin's prose is up to both tasks. While meeting luminaries from Einstein to Steven Weinberg, we are treated to clear explanations of what in the world they're talking about, whether it's the "collapse of the wave function" or "high-energy particle acceleration." This material is especially fascinating to those of us without much mathematical inclination, as Gribbin manages to show the state-of-the-art in modern physics without forcing us to go back to school for a few years. (There is an appendix, "Group Theory for Beginners," for interested parties.) Writers like Gribbin are helping us reclaim the time when a little learning was all it took to understand science--and The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything might just convince you that it's not so hard, after all. --Rob Lightner Read More

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  • Product Description

    Since Einsteins time, a theory of everythingone coherent mathema- tical package that would unite all the forces and particles of naturehas become the Holy Grail of physics, and its pursuit has resulted in some of the most extraordinary ideas in the history of science. John Gribbin first explains what is known about how subatomic particles work, then guides us through the research that has produced dazzling new models of the universe, among them the radical theories of superstringsthe hypothesis that particles are loops of vibrating stringand supersymmetry.

  • 0316326143
  • 9780316326148
  • John R. Gribbin
  • 1 August 2000
  • Back Bay Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
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