{"product_id":"new-theories-of-everything-the-quest-for-ultimate-explanation-9780199548170","title":"New Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation","description":"Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe? The quest for the theory of everything - a single key that unlocks all the secrets of the Universe - is no longer a pipe-dream, but the focus of some of our most exciting research about the structure of the cosmos. But what might such a theory look like? What would it mean? And how close are we to getting there?\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eNew Theories of Everything\u003c\/em\u003e, John D. Barrow describes the ideas and controversies surrounding the ultimate explanation. Updating his earlier work \u003cem\u003eTheories of Everything\u003c\/em\u003e with the very latest theories and predictions, he tells of the M-theory of superstrings and multiverses, of speculations about the world as a computer program, and of new ideas of computation and complexity. But this is not solely a book about modern ideas in physics - Barrow also considers and reflects on the philosophical and cultural consequences of those ideas, and their implications for our own existence in the world. \u003cbr\u003eFar from there being a single theory uniquely specifying the constants and forces of nature, the picture today is of a vast landscape of different logically possible laws and constants in many dimensions, of which our own world is but a shadow: a tiny facet of a higher dimensional reality. But this is not to say we should give up in bewilderment: Barrow shows how many rich and illuminating theories and questions arise, and what this may mean for our understanding of our own place in the cosmos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John D. Barrow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199548170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, Gresham Professor of Astronomy and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the author of many highly acclaimed books about modern developments in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, including \u003cem\u003eThe Left Hand of Creation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Anthropic Cosmological Principle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTheories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being, Impossibility: the limits of science and the science of limits\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBetween Inner Space and Outer Space\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eOrigin of the Universe\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Universe that Discovered Itself\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega\u003c\/em\u003e and, most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Artful Universe Expanded\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Infinite Book: a Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless\u003c\/em\u003e. He is also the author of the award-winning play \u003cem\u003eInfinities\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40521451208819,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":35.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e3e1034d-9297-4d77-9a24-fcc0b6ce0937.jpg?v=1666098731","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/new-theories-of-everything-the-quest-for-ultimate-explanation-9780199548170","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}