A review by tanja_alina_berg
The Grand Design by Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking

4.0

This is a book easy to read, sprinkled with humour. Despite this I'm left wondering whether I understood anything at all. Stephen Hawking delves into the origin of the universe and its laws that support our existence so wonderfully. One of the problems with physics is its inability to combine quantum theory with Newton's law of gravity (among other things). With the M-theory, things can be explained separately, giving truth in a patchwork of overlapping theories instead of a single unified one. "The grand design" doesn't explain anything in any depth and appears deceptively simple. I'm perplexed enough to want to continue with Brian Greene's "the Hidden Reality" which appears to tackle many of the same problems - quantum theory, multiple universes - in greater detail. I'm not sure it will help my understanding much, but it might satisfy some of my infinite curiosity on the mysteries of deep space, eventhough I can't hope to grasp all the details. If you never read above your level, how can you hope to make any progress?