I've recently recognised my superb eagerness to review bad books in contrast to this almost magical tendency to be stunned speechless by a good one. So given that I've avoided writing a review for this for almost 1.5 months, it's quite obvious how far in the latter category this book was to me.Th...
Few aspects of theoretical physics capture the public imagination – but string theory, which states that the universe is composed of tiny, vibrating strings rather than point-like particles, certainly has. The theory has spawned dozens of popular books and even a three-hour PBS TV series. It co...
According to Smolin, there are three "roads" currently leading to a theory of quantum gravity: the first road begins from quantum theory and adds relativity (string theory), the second begins from general relativity and adds quantum theory (loop quantum gravity), and the third rejects both and tr...