书籍介绍
This is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equation' which would tie all the forces in the universe together, yet never found it. Some of the greatest minds in physics took up the search, from Stephen Hawking to Brian Greene. None have yet succeeded.
Michio Kaku is a Professor of Physics at the City University of New York, co-founder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including Hyperspace, Beyond Einstein, Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future.
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主要写了物理学家寻找 the theory of everything 的过程，从牛顿定理讲到弦理论，结构很文笔都非常简明清晰。但好像又少了点什么，最后一章联系到哲学宗教的时候，显得有点杂乱，没有当时读《Brief Answers to the Big Questions》的 inspiring 的感觉。
That an ultimate unified symmetry exists might be the ultimate delusion of the last generation of reductionists. I used to be enamored by the beauty of invariance, the powerful idea of reductionism. But now that fetish fades away;perhaps an inevitable paradigm shift will tell that the idea of grand unification is not the only supremacy for science.
文笔简单清晰，但是大部分内容在Parallel Worlds中都有了，只是更新了一些最新的科学发现。最后一章关于God的讨论写得很不好，主要因为他自己信教，所以就折衷说基督教的创世说、佛教的涅槃说都可以和多重宇宙说相结合，还说自己是不可知论。这点他不如霍金，后者很清楚地说明量子波动的宇宙起源说根本无需神创说。托马斯•阿奎纳的第一动力说不值得一驳。作者不是不明白，只是没有勇气用他的理性和科学精神去直面他的信仰罢了。
不错的科普书，介绍物理学的发展历程，从相对论到弦理论。以科学家追求the theory of everything贯穿起来。有些知道的地方就快速翻过去，总的来说语言简洁讲述也有条理易懂。
简单易懂的物理学编年史
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