The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (672 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003OXTOTI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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In doing so, he describes some of the daring, outlandish ideas that will propel research in years to come.. Lee Smolin not only provides a brilliant layman's overview of current research as we attempt to build a 'theory of everything', but also questions many of the assumptions that lie behind string theory. "The Trouble with Physics" is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange and bizarre predictions of string theory, full of unseen dimensions and multiple universes
"An interesting overview of physics and where it may be headed" according to Randolph Eck. This is the first book I have read by Lee Smolin and I found it to be quite enlightening. He begins by introducing us to what he refers to as the five great problems in physics. He notes that “any theory that claims to be a fundamental theory of nature must answer each one of them.” They relate to quantum gravity, problems in quantum mechanics, unification of forces and particles, th. "an important eye opener on science as a job" according to Soren. Before reading this book I heard many positive reviews from my friends, and having finished it I'm not disappointed. Not only does it give a very interesting history of the ideas of unification in physics (I did my project work in the UK on the original Kaluza Klein Theory), but also gives a glimpse of the community doing the science. Belief in what you do is necessary to do a good job, but beli. Mathieu said Why is this important to lay readers?. Einstein's theory of Relativity is incomplete, much like Newton's Laws are incomplete. While the theory and laws work well within their set of assumptions, they start to diverge as conditions move outside their envelope of comfort. Newton's laws, while intuitive, have been proven to produce wrong answers at high speed and intense gravity. Einstein's theory shows great correspondence with experim
This isn't easy reading, but it will appeal to dedicated science buffs interested in where physics may be headed in the next decade. All rights reserved. The discovery of "dark energy," which seems to be pushing the universe apart faster and faster, isn't explained by string theory and is proving troublesome for that theory's advocates. . Smolin (The Life of the Cosmos) believes that physicists are making the mistake of searching for a theory that is "beautiful" and "elegant" instead of one that's actually backed up by experiments. From Publishers Weekly String theory—the hot topic in physics for the past 20 years—is a dead-end, says Smolin, one of the founders of Canada's Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics and himself a lapsed string theorist. 19)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Re