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I just finished reading Michio Kaku’s book “Beyond Einstein” which although a little outdated was fascinating. \u00a0After reading Steven Hawking’s books (written for the layman – ha) 3 times which despite my technical background and graduate study in mathematics, \u00a0left me frazzled, this one was almost a \u00a0pleasure. \u00a0I say ‘almost’ because this stuff on quantum mechanics, relativity and superstring theory is so non-intuitive. you have to wonder how these physicists ever came up with these concepts. \u00a0The latest candidate for unifying everything is superstring theory which claims that once (whatever ‘once’ means)\u00a0 there were 10 dimensions and 4 split off to make up our universe of space-time. \u00a0I can understand that but I can’t even envision it. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished reading Michio Kaku’s book “Beyond Einstein” which although a little outdated was fascinating. \u00a0After reading Steven Hawking’s books (written for the layman – ha) 3 times which despite my technical background and graduate study in mathematics, \u00a0left me frazzled, this one was almost a \u00a0pleasure. \u00a0I say ‘almost’ because this stuff on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Theory of Everything - Alan Wallach<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/alanwallach.com\/2015\/06\/01\/39\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Theory of Everything - 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