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Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 530
EAN: 9780679744085
ISBN: 0679744088
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: February 01, 1994
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: February 01, 1994
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author of The First Three Minutes describes the grand quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that can explain events as disparate as the cohesion inside the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and Earth.
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Rating:  - The final theory: a postponed dream
This book is very easy to read, perhaps the easiest I have read on the subject. It is intended for the lay persons and completely free of formulas, complicated concepts and tortuous reasonings. Maybe I would have liked that the author went into deeper explanations on some topics.
I personally liked Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics (Princeton Science Library) and Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics much better, since they contained more ... Read More
Rating:  - Not the most successful Weinberg book
At least he has learned between 1977 ( The First Three Minutes)
and 1992 about the Planck scale of mass/ energy...?
No equations in this book, just a lot of verbiage about "stuff".
This is the Steven Weinberg who wrote the "Standard Theory"
that gave neutrinos no mass ( wrong) and gluons no mass ( most probably wrong).
It seems that even his ideas of symmetry breaking may be wrong as well
or at least wholly incomplete.
I would say that Heinz R. Pagels ( The ... Read More
Rating:  - Incomprehensible
Although I have little to no education in physics, chemistry or mathematics, I have an IQ of 140, a degree in law and I have read (and even written some) philosophy, so I don't usually have problems with conceptualizing. Having said that as background, as a layman, I found this book to be completely incomprehensible. Although not religious, it is as if Weinberg is speaking in tounges, droning on and on about every physics and chemistry concept and theory from antiquity to present, without ever pausing ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent account of aging science
The view of the author that the current theories are the right path to the final theory is unrealistic. This approach implies that the final theory is some kind of complex mix of previous theories. The final theory requires new fundamental objects in which terms to obtain the modern knowledge as this is done in Eugene Savov’s book Theory of Interaction. The final theory has to be stunningly simple.
Rating: - Very Good Overview of a Difficult Subject
Dreams of a final theory
I believe this book's main propose was the Author, a Nobel prize winning physicist attempting to weigh in for Congressional funding of the Superconducting Super- Collider (SSC). This book is like reading two books in one. The first part of the book had some very good writing about atomic particle research and excellent explanations of the experiments. It also contains the author's surprisingly optimistic view that the theories being currently developed are the beginning ... Read More
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