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Presents a range of topics in theoretical physics, from the theory of relativity to time travel, from supergravity to supersymmetry, from quantum theory to M-theory, from holography to duality, from superstring theory to p-branes, from black holes to the idea of multiple histories.
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Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
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2012
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English
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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...