Title
Cosmic landscape : string theory and the illusion of intelligent design / Leonard Susskind.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0316155799 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006.
Language
English
Description
xii, 403 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Item Number
9780316155793
Call Number
QB981 .S886 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
523.1/2
Summary
The beginning of the 21st century is a watershed in modern science, a time that will forever change our understanding of the universe, Susskind contends. Several decades ago, he introduced the revolutionary concept of string theory to the world of physical science. In doing so, he inspired a generation of physicists who believed that the theory would uniquely predict the properties of our universe. Now, in his first book, Susskind argues that the very idea of such an "elegant theory" no longer suits our understanding of the universe, and that our narrow 20th-century view of a unique universe will have to give way to the much broader concept of a gigantic cosmic landscape--a megaverse, pregnant with new possibilities.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The world according to Feynman
The mother of all physics problems
The lay of the land
The myth of uniqueness and elegance
Thunderbolt from heaven
On frozen fish and boiled fish
A rubber band-powered world
Reincarnation
On our own?
The branes behind Rube Goldberg's greatest machine
A bubble bath universe
The black hole war
Summing up.
