The grand design / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
By: Hawking, Stephen.
Contributor(s): Mlodinow, Leonard.
New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, ©2012Edition: 2012 Bantam Books trade pbk. ed.Description: 199 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780553384666 (pbk.).Subject(s): Unified field theories -- Popular works | Superstring theories -- Popular works | Mathematical physics -- Popular worksGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | QC794.6.G7 H385 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012455 |
Includes 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, University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking 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) of the blank spots in quantum physics