New Physics

Author: John Gribbin
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
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It began as chaos. Then everything was composed of elements. Then all these elements were found to be made up of particles in a certain pattern. After that, some people thought it was better to say they were waves rather than particles. But then someone else proposed that waves were actually strings. Now they think strings are indeed chaotic—if physicists can't agree on what things look like, what else can we do? Fortunately, New Physics will now guide you through the maze of theories, relativity, general relativity, and other things, keeping your knowledge in sync with the changing state of the universe.