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stories's review
informative
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5.0
Utterly fascinating, and highly intelligible despite the complexity of its contents. I appreciated the regular acknowledgements of individual contributions to the shared knowledge pool, too.
Left me wanting to return to the start and go again, as I feel I only absorbed some of the information, but by golly it was a good read.
Intriguing and exciting and also possible to follow. Bonus for starting sufficiently “simply” to build trust in the scientific grounding, too.
Left me wanting to return to the start and go again, as I feel I only absorbed some of the information, but by golly it was a good read.
Intriguing and exciting and also possible to follow. Bonus for starting sufficiently “simply” to build trust in the scientific grounding, too.
pictusfish's review against another edition
4.0
The first half was really interesting, but then i just got really lost during the second half.
xanderander's review against another edition
5.0
Beautifully written- I am currently a sophomore in high school whose father read this book years ago and has been waiting for me to reach an age where I could begin to understand it. I will admit that much of this book flew over my head before discussing it with my dad, but it was always written in ways that I could wrap my head around (to the highest extent one can wrap their mind around physics not explained by math).
Do I think this is the ultimate theory? Maybe not quite. Do I think that everything in this book is 100% true? No, there's certainly quite a bit that's not there and a lot of speculation and trust in things that haven't been proven (but I suppose religion got quite far there, so why not string theory?). Do I enjoy a good theoretical read? Absolutely. Is Brian Greene a genius writer? 100%.
I recommend this to anyone who has someone to discuss the implications of the theories with (like when I came to the conclusion that everything is moving at light speed all at once because mass doesn't actually exist... wasn't quite right there but discussed it and got past it). Letting the contents of this book stew in our head may make you go crazy.
Do I think this is the ultimate theory? Maybe not quite. Do I think that everything in this book is 100% true? No, there's certainly quite a bit that's not there and a lot of speculation and trust in things that haven't been proven (but I suppose religion got quite far there, so why not string theory?). Do I enjoy a good theoretical read? Absolutely. Is Brian Greene a genius writer? 100%.
I recommend this to anyone who has someone to discuss the implications of the theories with (like when I came to the conclusion that everything is moving at light speed all at once because mass doesn't actually exist... wasn't quite right there but discussed it and got past it). Letting the contents of this book stew in our head may make you go crazy.
applegnreads's review against another edition
4.0
I am victorious!!! which is to say, I read the whole thing (except the notes etc). for a book about string theory it was very easy to read, which is to say it took me at least 5 times longer than most books. I especially slowed down in the middle when he's actually describing string theory.
the quote that describes the whole book from p 285: But don't worry. The really hard work has already been done by string theorists and we will content ourselves here with explaining their results.
I wanted more and have no doubt that it's already out of date but it was great.
the quote that describes the whole book from p 285: But don't worry. The really hard work has already been done by string theorists and we will content ourselves here with explaining their results.
I wanted more and have no doubt that it's already out of date but it was great.
nderiley's review against another edition
2.0
It started off strong, but it got way too techincal at the end for a non-scientist.
babbler1202's review against another edition
I may need more background education to be able to fully comprehend some of the information in this book. I may try to reread it again later
gsheffy's review against another edition
one of my favorite writers of pop physics i’ve read. to be honest, i didn’t find myself completely compelled by string theory (time of publication perhaps) but really enjoyed the first and last parts of the book. the man is a WRITER