TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hawking,Stephen
AU  - Mlodinow,Leonard
TI  - The grand design
SN  - 9780553819229
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Bantam Books/Transworld Publishers
KW  - Unified field theories
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Superstring theories
KW  - Mathematical physics
N1  - Includes index; Previous publication : New York : Bantam Books , 2010; The mystery of being -- The rule of law -- What is reality? -- Alternative histories -- The theory of everything -- Choosing our universe -- The apparent miracle -- The grand design
N2  - Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions-- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?-- and explains that scientists are approaching what is called'M-theory,' a collection of overlapping theories (including string  theory) that fill in many (but not all) the blank spots in quantum physics. This collection is known as the'Grand Unified Field Theories.'
ER  -