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While I take issue with some of the claims in this book, it was an informative and good read. The first half was rather remedial, but the second half is full of wacky, stringy goodness. Greene avoids filling us in on the messy mathematical details, which I miss. He expects the reader to take his word for it a little too much of the time, and I often don't. His worst offense is never mentioning loop quantum gravity at all, which is sorely dishonest! He also claims string theory has no free parame
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Excellent book. Starts off strong but quickly gets into the abstract nature of quantum mechanics, which can make anyone's eyes cross. Greene presents it in an understandable fashion. Almost as many questions as answers in this book, but that reflects the current state of theoretical physics and the quest for a theory of everything.
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Changed my life. A layman's guide to physics and string theory.
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Brian Greene is the Barak Obama of the physics community. He writes about complex subject matter in analogies of cute little ants and rocket ships. How could that be bad? It covers all the basics and kind of gets you (me) excited about the field. Best of all, he talks to you as if he were a human being and not just a sexual rock god of physics.
Brian Greene does a great job of simplifying superstring theory and relating it to previous advances in physics. Sometimes I think he gushes a little too much and sometimes I still find myself scratching my head having to take at face value what he is talking about.
Sep 09, 2009
Waylander
marked it as to-read
