New Theories of Everything: The Quest for the Ultimate Explanation

by John D. Barrow

Paperback, 2008

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501

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Oxford University Press, USA (2008), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 272 pages

Description

Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe? What might such a theory look like, and what would it mean? John D. Barrow presents and explains the latest theories, predictions and controversies surrounding the ultimate explanation, from superstrings and multiverses to speculations about the world as a computer, and the implications of these theories for own. existence. - ;Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that

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LibraryThing member fpagan

I was afraid this would just be a too-lightly edited second edition of _Theories of Everything_ (1992, same subtitle), and it is. It is annoying that the genuinely new portions are not typographically differentiated from the old. Also annoying is the surfeit of theological references. A lot of good

stuff, needlessly contaminated.

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LibraryThing member FabianMelMelGar

A great book by a great writer; but it's great only if you have an excellent layman's knowledge of science. The casual science reader will not be able to understand it, and a professional scientist may already know everything Barrow has to say.

LibraryThing member BakuDreamer

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