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Universe on a T-shirt : the quest for the theory of everything

Author:Dan Falk

Summary:"Universe on a T-Shirt tells the fascinating story of the search for the Holy Grail of physics." "Dan Falk places this intriguing story in its historical context, tracing the quest from ancient Greece to the breakthroughs of Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein, to the excitement over string theory and today's efforts to merge quantum theory with general relativity

Print Book, English, 2004

Edition:1st U.S. ed View all formats and editions

Publisher: Arcade Pub., New York, 2004

Genre:History

Physical Description:x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

ISBN:

9781559707077, 9781559707336, 1559707070, 155970733X

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:52860219

Subjects:

Grand unified theories (Nuclear physics)

Große Vereinheitlichung

Physics History

Physique Histoire

Théories de grande unification

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Universe on a T-shirt.

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