TY - BOOK ID - 32559604 TI - The grand design. AU - Hawking, Stephen AU - Mlodinow, Leonard PY - 2010 SN - 9780553384666 055338466X 9780553907070 0553907077 9780593058305 9780553805376 9780593058299 0553805371 0593058291 0593058305 PB - London Bantam Press DB - UniCat KW - Unified field theories KW - Mathematical physics KW - Superstring theories KW - Théories du champ unitaire KW - Physique mathématique KW - Supercordes (Physique nucléaire) KW - Popular works KW - Ouvrages de vulgarisation KW - Cosmology KW - Einstein unified field theory KW - Field theories, Unified KW - Unified field theory, Einstein KW - Unified theories KW - Superstrings (Nuclear physics) KW - Theories, Superstring KW - Physical mathematics KW - Physics KW - Mathematics KW - Electromagnetic theory KW - Field theory (Physics) KW - Relativity (Physics) KW - Supergravity KW - Supersymmetry KW - String models KW - Popular works. KW - Unified field theories - Popular works KW - Superstring theories - Popular works KW - Mathematical physics - Popular works UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32559604 AB - Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions-- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?-- and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory, " a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that fill in many (but not all) the blank spots in quantum physics. This collection is known as the "Grand Unified Field Theories." ER -