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Hawking and his co-writer, Leonard Mlodinow, present a culmination of Hawking's famous search for a unifying theory of physics. Here they claim such a theory exists, they call "M-theory"; a theory that they claim finally brings quantum mechanics together with Einstein's general relativity theory concerning gravity. The book opens claiming the "philosophy is dead" (a claim with some hoopla and a long past). The general concept of their M-theory is that the universe cannot be explained with a sing
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The book is a good synopsis of modern science, it's foundations and philosophy. Hawking seems to have taken a liking to M-theory and proposes the notion of model-dependent realism. This is the provocative, dare I say Kantian-esque, view that reality, at least to us, depends on the model we use to describe it.
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