Tuesday, September 4, 2007

The Elegant Universe

I finally read this book. I hated it. It was incredibly dull and incredibly self-satisfied. I did not think it was clearly written. While string theory is interesting, I feel like instead of trying to make our world fit into the 11-dimensional one necessary for string theory we should try and find a theory that describes the world we see. One of the last sections talked about whether or not string theory could be backed up experimentally. Greene never explicitly says no, but it is heavily implied that that is the case.

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