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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 530.1
EAN: 9780385477819
Edition: Rev Upd Su
ISBN: 0385477813
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: September 01, 1995
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: September 01, 1995
Studio: Anchor
Features:- ISBN13: 9780385477819
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Product Description:
Beyond Einstein takes readers on an exciting excursion into the discoveries that have led scientists to the brightest new prospect in theoretical physics today -- superstring theory. What is superstring theory and why is it important? This revolutionary breakthrough may well be the
fulfillment of Albert Einstein's lifelong dream of a Theory of Everything, uniting the laws of physics into a single description explaining all the known forces in the universe. Co-authored by one of the leading pioneers in superstrings, Michio Kaku, and completely revised and updated with the newest groundbreaking research, the book approaches scientific questions with the excitement of a detective story, offering a fascinating look at the new science that may make the impossible possible.
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Popularizer of science Michio Kaku has made an attempt to explain the current view of sub-atomic particle physics to the science-interested layman in the book "Beyond Einstein," and I think he succeeds for the most part. There are a few failed attempts at explaining crucial concepts, but overall the book is lucid and logically structured. Theoretical physicists have been chasing down the "theory of everything" - one equation from which all other laws and principles of physics can be derived - since ... Read More
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Beyond Einstein comes short of delivering you to the realm beyond. It only gestures at the surface of the underpinning mathematics and physics, which isn't nearly enough to get your feet wet and leaves you wanting for more. While analogies are important for a lay reader to form appreciations, many of the analogies are vague and confusing to the untrained minds. I love reading popular science books, but I don't love this one as much as I could have.
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this book is useful and informative, if a little stiff. he's writing to an audience that's already forgotten more about the subjuct than i'll ever know, but i still enjoyed it. i think he genuinely enjoys his work and the subject, and that really comes thru. i'd recommend this to someone with a good grasp of physics, which i never took, but still love.
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As a previous reader of Michio Kaku's work, I admit to coming in with quite high expectations. Mr. Kaku and his co-author, in this work, do not settle on a thesis or an overarching theme to the book and it suffers from a lack of direction. Often the book is fascinating in it's discussion, but the descriptions of physics processes is often weak and hard to connect and the use of much too many acronyms slows the reading by forcing the reader to check back much too often. My joy in reading this book was ... Read More
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If you are bored, this will be a fun read. I had no problem reading this book from the first half toward the middle, then it got extremely technical. I had to skip one chapter in the middle and proceed ahead to the rest of the book. Compared to other books on this topic, the content of this book is about average. The authors aimed more toward entertaining you rather than teaching you, which is fine. My favorite quote from this book: "You don't understand mathematics, you just get used to them", as said ... Read More
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