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082 _a530.142
_bHAW
100 _aHawking, Stephen
245 _aThe grand design
260 _bBantam Books
_aNew York
_c2010
300 _a198 pages: illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
520 _a"Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly 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) the blank spots in quantum physics. This collection is known as the "Grand Unified Field Theories.""
650 _aCosmology
650 _aMathematical physics
650 _aPopular works
650 _aPopular works
650 _aSuperstring theories
650 _aUnified field theories
700 _aMlodinow, Leonard
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