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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780465078363ISBN:0465078362
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2002-08-15
ISBN-13:9780465078363ISBN:0465078362
Description: Very Good. In great shape, small amount of wear, but overall in excellent shape. Bumps and scuffs are evident on corners and edges of cover. read more
Description: Fine. 0465078362 Basic trade paperback, 2003 (4th) printing, immaculate/unused, No marks, only slight wear (like new)...NOT a RUINED remainder marked copy...Bubble-wrapped and ed in a Box w/ confirmation. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780465078363ISBN:0465078362
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. New book. In stock. Same/next business day shipping. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages are clean, though several are wrinkled from moisture; wraps are creased and there is a reading crease. Glued binding. 245 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This book is an attempt to join quantum mechanics with the larger world and energies of gravity. The major source of debate in physics today is joining the world of the huge into the world of the small with a theory that binds them together. This is Smolin's attempt to explain the problem and how physics are attempting to solve it.
I still left this book with just as many questions or perhaps more than I had before I went in. That's not always a bad thing.
I wish I could live another 50 years. Perhaps by then, we'll have more answers. However, as this book demonstrates, with more answers, we have twice as many questions."
"A lot of what's covered in the various pop physics books is all the same stuff over and over, but the proposed extensions to contemporary physics explained in this book are nothing I've read anywhere else. I like that it covers string theory realistically, neither treating it as the one true way, nor as being void of value just because it's flawed."
"Lee Smolin is one of the most interesting and controversial figures in modern physics. Establishment physicists often call him a maverick or worse. I am one of many laypeople who think that he's telling it like it is, and the mainstream people are full of s...trings.
When he wrote this book, around 1999, I think he was more part of the mainstream. He presents several different approaches to the very difficult problem of unifying gravity and quantum mechanics. It's clear that his heart belongs to Loop Quantum Gravity, but he tries to be as even-handed as possible. He ends up on an optimistic note, and says that he thinks there will be a real unified theory within the next 10-15 years. Something will work.
Alas, in The Trouble with Physics, seven years later, one of the first things he did was to retract his earlier prediction, and in the most categorical way possible. "We have failed." Sobering words."
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