Noel's review
The Fabric of the Cosmos (Space, time, and the texture of reality) by Brian Greene
Greene presents a clear, concise, and well-written overview of the history of physics and the current states of thought of the standard model of cosmology and string theory. It is also as non-technical and non-mathematical as it can be to get the ideas across, utilizing lots of pop-culture references (particularly The Simpsons) as metaphors for some of the weirder features our universe and/or the math we've developed to describe it throws at us.
Dr. Greene is a true believer in both the standard model and string theory and as such paints a rosy picture of things that a layman (such as myself) would find highly improbable. I spent several sections of the book thinking, "now WAIT JUST ONE MINUTE HERE..." But these things are theory and will eventually be accepted or rejected as experiments are devised and run to test them.
Dr. Greene is a true believer in both the standard model and string theory and as such paints a rosy picture of things that a layman (such as myself) would find highly improbable. I spent several sections of the book thinking, "now WAIT JUST ONE MINUTE HERE..." But these things are theory and will eventually be accepted or rejected as experiments are devised and run to test them.
