The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent DesignIn his first book ever, the father of string theory reinvents the world's concept of the known universe and man's unique place within it. Line drawings. |
Contents
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 BandPowered World | |
Reincarnation | |
On Our Own? | |
A Bubble Bath Universe | |
The Black Hole | |
Summing | |
Epilogue | |
Other editions - View all
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design Leonard Susskind No preview available - 2006 |
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design Leonard Susskind No preview available - 2005 |
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design Leonard Susskind No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
answer Anthropic Principle atoms become billion black hole bubble called chapter charge close completely cosmological constant create describe determine diagram dimensions direction discovered distance early earth effect Einstein electric electrons elegant elementary particles energy equations eventually exactly example existence expanding experiment explain fact field force galaxies geometry give gravity happen Higgs horizon hundred idea imagine important infinite Inflation interesting kind Landscape Laws of Physics light lines live look magnetic mass mathematical matter means motion moving nature neutron nucleus objects observer ordinary original photon physicists pocket positive possible precise Principle probability problem properties quantum mechanics quarks question radiation reason Relativity require result seems sense similar simple single space stars String Theory surface term theoretical theorists things understand universe vacuum vacuum energy valley wave zero