Hawking, Stephen <br/><br/>
The grand design 
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow 
 - New York :   Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks,   c2012. 
 - 208 p. :   ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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.<br/>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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780553384666 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Unified field theories<br/>Superstring theories<br/>Mathematical physics<br/>Physics--Research<br/>Cosmology --Research
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>523.142 HA GR