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The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin

15-Jun-07

This was a very interesting book. I have just a passing interest in the modern physics and its attempts to unify the forces and the particles. My last physics book was The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, so I assumed that the String Theory (or various String Theories as it turns out) was [...]

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

08-Aug-05

This is probably the first non-textbook physics book I’ve read since I read The Dancing Wu Li Masters : An Overview of the New Physics and The Tao of Physics in high school in the 80s. At the time, I was so much amazed and awed by quantum physics as illustrated by Gary Zukav [...]

Time, an Illusion or a Hoax?

04-Aug-03

A couple of days ago, I found an interesting article on a 27-year-old New Zealand broadcasting school tutor whose recent paper on time seems to have caused controversy in some part of the Physics community.
Peter Lynds‘ paper “Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics:
Indeterminacy vs. Discontinuity”, which is to be published in August in Foundations of [...]