Bibliograph

The grand design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

Type

Label

The grand design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The grand design

Oclc number

654183639

Responsibility statement

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

Summary

Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly 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) the blank spots in quantum physics. This collection is known as the "Grand Unified Field Theories."

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

adult

Classification