This time, a world-renowned astrophysicist invites us on a quest for the perfect equation to unlock the deepest mysteries of our world and the universe.
All the wonders of modern technology are essentially due to scientists who gradually discovered the fundamental forces of the world. Now scientists may have within their grasp the means to combine these four forces of nature - gravity, the electromagnetic force, and the weak and strong nuclear parts - into a single theory. It could finally shed light on science's greatest mysteries: What happened before the big bang? And why did it happen in the first place? What is on the other side of the black hole? Is time travel possible? Are there wormholes leading to other universes? Why are we here?
Kaku describes the search for this final theory and all the strange vicissitudes of one of the strangest chapters in the history of physics. It goes through all the earlier revolutions that gave us technological wonders: Newtonian revolution, the mastery of the electromagnetic force, relativity theory, quantum theory, and finally today's string theory. And it explains why there is a fierce controversy over this "Divine Equation": nothing less than our idea of the universe is at stake.
The author has a gift for explaining even complex scientific topics in an engaging and comprehensible way, which is why his work ranks among the most highly regarded scholarly and popular science books of our time.
