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    <body><![CDATA[I got this book when the news of superstrings made its way into the commons.  This one is bordering on a mathematical appeal but it is still easy enough to understand. The famous split experiment of particles and waves is referred to in here and the connection to superstrings being at the foundation...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69569610">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In days of yore, educated men and women would avidly follow new developments in the world of science; these days it seems to be too much trouble--relativity was bad enough, but &quot;N-dimensional space&quot;? Fortunately for those of us who have trouble visualizing parallel parking, much less quarks and gluons, John Gribbin is back with an up-to-date primer on subatomic physics. <em>The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything</em> refers as much to the reader's search for understanding as to the physicist's search for clever theories and experimental evidence to back them up, and Gribbin's prose is up to both tasks.<p>  While meeting luminaries from Einstein to Steven Weinberg, we are treated to clear explanations of what in the world they're talking about, whether it's the &quot;collapse of the wave function&quot; or &quot;high-energy particle acceleration.&quot; This material is especially fascinating to those of us without much mathematical inclination, as Gribbin manages to show the state-of-the-art in modern physics without forcing us to go back to school for a few years. (There is an appendix, &quot;Group Theory for Beginners,&quot; for interested parties.) Writers like Gribbin are helping us reclaim the time when a little learning was all it took to understand science--and <em>The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything</em> might just convince you that it's not so hard, after all. <em>--Rob Lightner</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[About half of the book is easy to read, but the rest is just too complex for me (Physics is not my major). Very interesting book.]]></body>
    
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