by Leonard Susskind
Mr. Leonard is head-over-heals enamoured of his views on string theory of being the underlying basis to a some greater reality and cannot in anyway be wrong. Einstein felt that way too, but there is a vast difference between Mr. Leonard and Einstein; most of Einstein's work could be for the most par...
Susskind's vivid and engaging account of developments in theoretical physics over the past few decades during the dominance of Hawking's ideas in the field uses his fight against the flow on behalf of quantum mechanics as a narrative focus.I loved reading this book, which never patronised the non-sp...
Fight! Fight! Fight! - shame we already know Hawkins volte face on the subject and that things (aka neutrinos) can, thanks to CERN, move faster than the speed of light.So although this is interesting, the paradigm has shifted somewhat. I also have to 'fess up that a lot of this went over my head and...
There is a point in the expanding universe where things are moving away from us at the speed of light. Since nothing can exceed the speed of light, we can know nothing of what lies beyond that point. Not only that, but any currently known object that speeds beyond that horizon is lost to us forever....
A trip through modern particle physics. I love that the math of string theory works so well here, but I hate that it just doesn't seem to describe the real world. Cognitive dissonance!
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