Book description
The Trouble with Physics is a groundbreaking account of the
state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity
through quantum mechanics to the strange and bizarre predictions of
string theory, full of unseen dimensions and multiple universes.
Lee Smolin not only provides a brilliant layman s overview of
current research as we attempt to build a theory of everything , but
also questions many of the assumptions that lie behind string theory.
In doing so, he describes some of the daring, outlandish ideas that
will propel research in years to come.
Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist who is a leading pioneer of the
field of quantum gravity and cosmology. He is the author of more than
100 scientific papers and two popular books, LIFE OF THE COSMOS (1997)
and THREE ROADS TO QUANTUM GRAVITY (2001).
