The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next / L...
The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next / L...
The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next / Lee Smolin.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
Date
2006.
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N530.14/4
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English
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p. cm.
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Pt. I. The unfinished revolution -- 1. The five great problems in theoretical physics -- 2. The beauty myth -- 3. The world as geometry -- 4. Unification becomes a science -- 5. From unification to superunification -- 6. Quantum gravity : the fork in the road -- Pt. II. A brief history of string the...
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
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Massachusetts
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2006.
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"In this book, physicist Lee Smolin argues that physics - the basis for all other sciences - has lost its way. One of the major problems, according to Smolin, is string theory: an ambitious attempt to formulate a "theory of everything" that explains all the particles and forces of nature and how the universe came to be." "But as Smolin reveals, the...
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The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next / Lee Smolin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N530.14/4
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0618551050
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530.14
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991021835889702626
