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• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 - 464 pages

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Incredible

Brian Greene does an incredible job of describing nature's most elusive properties in simple, easy to understand language. It is truly an amazing feat to be able to reveal the mysteries of the universe in such a way that almost anyone can understand. You don't need to be a physicist to be immediately enthralled in his highly involved discussions about special & general relativity, quantum mechanics, and superstring theory. I cannot imagine that anyone could pick up this book and not be kept up at night pondering the unbelievable behaviors in both the cosmic and atomic realms.

I am not unfamiliar with the tantalizing strangeness of the universe, being student at MIT, but this book has elevated my understanding of the universe and changed the way I look at the world around me. His creative and enlightening analogies form a new perspective on things that you may think you understand. Things as basic and fundamental as mass, gravity, and light lose all resemblance to commonly held beliefs. Nature behaves very strangely in its most fundamental state. This is one book that everyone can benefit from reading and there is no reason why it should not find its way on everyone's bookshelf.


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Modern Physics & Relativity for Simple Folks

This book puts modern physics, relativity, and string theory into terms that the non-mathematician can understand. Very fascinating and no math! Not the easiest of reading, but worth it.









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Big ideas, little data

Like most articles and books on string theory and related topics, I just can't deal with all the speculation and the paucity of data. As one physicist noted in Scientific American, string theory is worse than wrong. Because the speculation is so similar to the ancient yogic concepts that I believe to be true, my attitude could change if someone could figure out how to actually put some of the ideas to the test. In the meantime, I must conclude that I would never have been able to get my Ph.D. dissertation accepted by the examining committee if I had written the kind of tomes that string theorists write.


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overly optimistic

this was my introduction to string theory and after processing it all, some things just dont compute. the concepts are presented clearly enough, accompanying illustrations are informative and theres an absolute glut of imaginary scenarios to help explain theoretical and mathematical ideas (some clever, some contrived and others unoriginal, such as einsteins relativity train), but theres a glaring lack of solid evidence for the theory, not to mention what comes across as lazy science. analogies and speculations seem to be offered in the context of a proof, which doesnt serve to boost credibility. for example, performing the calculations that describe the properties of an imaginary two-dimensional "garden-hose world" or even a six-dimensional manifold simply doesnt prove that hidden dimensions exist in the real world, but the author seems to believe the reader will have no choice but to accept it as most likely being true. granted, that may be overly simplifying (and undermining) the genuine mathematical achievements that underpin the staggering framework of the theory, which is certainly more than ive contributed to any scientific field. the fact is, however, as admitted in the book, the conclusions being reached by string theorists are based on (necessary) approximations, assumptions and, curiously repeated throughout nearly every chapter, hope. im sorry, but hope shouldnt be enough to convince even the casual, unbiased reader, never mind the professional skeptic. personal opinions on the science aside, the book is well written and even if i do perceive brian greenes level of enthusiasm to be unwarranted, it actually makes the reading more enjoyable.




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