The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author of The First
Three Minutes describes the grand quest for a unifying theory of
nature--one that can explain forces as different as the cohesion inside
the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and Earth. Wirting
with dazzling elegance and clarity, he retraces the steps that have led
modern scientists from relativity and quantum mechanics to the notion of
super-strings and the idea that our universe may coexist with others.
But Weinberg asks as many questions as he answers, among them: Why does
each explanation of the way nature works point to other, deeper
explanations? Why are the best theories not only logical but beautiful?
And what implications will a final theory have for our philosophy and
religious faith?
Intellectually daring, rich in anecdote and aphorism, Dreams of a Final
Theory launches us into a new cosmos and helps us make sense of what we
find there.