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The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

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spectracommunist's review

4.0

It is a definitely a mind blowing stuff.

#1. The Mystery of Being
The M-theory as unification, the Mercator Projection and the questions of not 'how' but 'why'

#2. The Rule of Law
Mythologies & Ancient Philosophy. The Ionian Science as the base of all mysteries.

#3. What is Reality?
The Possible Distortion. In the figments of dreams.The Model dependent Quantum Mechanics.The Superposition Theory.

#4. Alternative Histories
The Double Slit Experiment as everything of quantum theory.Every Possible Histories of an event.Probability Amplitudes.The Sum over Histories.

#5. The Theory of Everything
Electricity-Magnetism.The Luminiferous Ether Drag.Time Relation & Warps.Space Distortion.Quantum Field Theory.Feynman Diagrams.Renormalization. Asymptotic Freedom of Quarks.Supergravity. The p-branes.Solutions of M-theory.

#6. Choosing our Universe
Expansion.Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. Space Warps. Quantum Multiverse.no-boundary conditions.

#7. The Apparent Miracle
Eccentricities.The Anthropic Principles

#8. The Grand Design
The 'Game of Life'. Blinkers & Gliders as self growing artificial intelligence.

Besides Prof. Stephen Hawking has a great sense of humour..

deepkiwireader's review

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5.0

Insightful to understand the laws that govern the universe. Complex topics were made easy to digest through humours analogies and simple experiments.

Fully recommend to anyone who wants to understand the probabilistic nature of the universe.