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The Elegant Universe
Physics loves a good mystery, but nothing’s messier than trying to explain the universe with two theories that hate each other’s guts. What if the tiniest things in the cosmos aren’t particles at all, but tiny strings vibrating out a cosmic tune? That’s the wild idea Brian Greene throws at us in The Elegant Universe — a book that dives headfirst into the chaos of quantum mechanics and gravity, trying to stitch them together with a theory that sounds more like science fiction than science fact.
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