Sentences with phrase «books on string theory»

I've read books on string theory, so then I'm a qualified expert on that?

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To give you just a glimpse of the convictions involved, we asked Krauss, whose intriguing book Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions, From Plato to String Theory and Beyond is coming out in October, to riff a bit on what he's thinking these days.

Leonard Susskind, Information Station Institution: Stanford University Year: 2008 Known for: Co-creating string theory Idea: In his book The Black Hole War, Susskind says quantum physics dictates that information remains on the black hole's edge, even while the object falls in.

Although the book is entitled Idiot's Guide to String Theory it's also an idiot's guide to look on gravity, the cause of dynamical triangulations to the other types.

Steve: And one of the great things about the book is that it goes off on a lot of digressions as you just did, because you really do need a background in the entire history of physics, to a certain degree, to understand string theory, even at a relatively rudimentary level.

Madhusree Mukerjee distinguished herself at Scientific American for the depth of her knowledge about string and related theory as well as the elegance of her news and feature writing.After she left, the trained physicist applied her writing prowess to a book on the Andaman Islanders and recently to Churchill's Secret War, a scathing investigation from a raft of primary sources that revealed how direct decision - making by Winston Churchill led to massive famine on the Indian subcontinent.Meet Madhusree in this recent interview in Harper's, in which she parries gracefully a series of sharp questions from interviewer Scott Horton.

Over the course of the book, you'll meet the Navy's Top Gun pilots, a violinist so skilled that when a string breaks during a performance he simply completes the piece on the remaining strings, and the eccentric Hungarian psychologist who was so confident in his theory of genius that he sought a wife who would collaborate with him in raising a child to be a chess prodigy (it worked).