Lee Smolin — The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next — Mariner Books, 2006, 392 pp. ISBN 978-0-618-91868-3
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In this book, the physicist Lee Smolin tries to explains us in what kind of predicament modern physics is today. He starts by enumerating the five great questions that modern physics must answer:
- Unify general relativity and quantum mechanics; that is, formulate the theory of quantum gravity
- Solve a number of problems within quantum mechanics
- Unify forces, that is, explain all of them within a coherent theory
- Explain the numerous natural constants, that is, explain why they have their specific values and not some other
- Explain weird cosmological phenomena such as “dark matter” and “dark energy”
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