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Wirting with dazzling elegance and clarity, he retraces the steps that have led modern scientists from relativity and quantum mechanics to the notion of super-strings and the idea that our universe may coexist with others.<br><br>But Weinberg asks as many questions as he answers, among them: Why does each explanation of the way nature works point to other, deeper explanations? Why are the best theories not only logical but beautiful? And what implications will a final theory have for our philosophy and religious faith?<br><br>Intellectually daring, rich in anecdote and aphorism, <i>Dreams of a Final Theory</i>聽launches us into a new cosmos and helps us make sense of what we find there.</div></div></div><div class="search_box_wrapper"></div></td> </tr></table><div id="summary-second-column"></div></div></div></div></div><div class=vertical_module_list_row><h3 class=about_title><a name="book_other_versions_anchor"></a>Other editions - <a href='https://books.google.com.sg/books?q=editions:ISBN0679744088&id=Qd0MEtsBr7oC'>View all</a></h3><div id=book_other_versions class=about_content><div id=book_other_versions_v><div class="one-third-column"><div class="crsiwrapper"><table class="rsi" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td class="coverdstd" align="center"><a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=OLrZkgPsZR0C&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=1" ><img alt="" class="coverthumb hover-card-attach-point" src="https://books.google.com.sg/books/content?id=OLrZkgPsZR0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl" border="0" height="80"></a></td><td valign=top><div class=resbdy><a class="primary cresbdy" href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=OLrZkgPsZR0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=1"><span dir=ltr>Dreams Of A Final Theory: The Search for The Fundamental Laws of Nature</span></a><br><span style="line-height: 1.3em; font-size:-1;"><span><a href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Steven+Weinberg%22" class="secondary"><span dir=ltr>Steven Weinberg</span></a></span><br/><span><span style="color:#99522e">Limited preview</span> - 2010</span><br/></span></div></td><td align=right></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="one-third-column"><div class="crsiwrapper"><table class="rsi" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td class="coverdstd" align="center"><a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=QfmqHHYWiK4C&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=1" ><img alt="" class="coverthumb hover-card-attach-point" src="https://books.google.com.sg/books/content?id=QfmqHHYWiK4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl" border="0" height="80"></a></td><td valign=top><div class=resbdy><a class="primary cresbdy" href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=QfmqHHYWiK4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=1"><span dir=ltr>Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature</span></a><br><span style="line-height: 1.3em; font-size:-1;"><span><a href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Steven+Weinberg%22" class="secondary"><span dir=ltr>Steven Weinberg</span></a></span><br/><span><span style="color:#99522e">Limited preview</span> - 2011</span><br/></span></div></td><td align=right></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="one-third-column"><div class="crsiwrapper"><table class="rsi" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td class="coverdstd" align="center"><a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=q72h4i0l53AC&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=1" ><img alt="" class="coverthumb hover-card-attach-point" src="https://books.google.com.sg/books/content?id=q72h4i0l53AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5" border="0" height="80"></a></td><td valign=top><div class=resbdy><a class="primary cresbdy" href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=q72h4i0l53AC&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=1"><span dir=ltr>Dreams of a Final Theory</span></a><br><span style="line-height: 1.3em; font-size:-1;"><span><a href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Steven+Weinberg%22" class="secondary"><span dir=ltr>Steven Weinberg</span></a></span><br/><span><span style="color:#999">Snippet view</span> - 1992</span><br/></span></div></td><td align=right></td></tr></table></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div><div class="showall"><a class="secondary" href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?q=editions:ISBN0679744088&id=Qd0MEtsBr7oC&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=1">View all »</a></div><script>(function () {var fn = window['_OC_WSBookList'] || window['_OC_BookList'];fn && fn('book_other_versions', [{"title":"Dreams Of A Final Theory","authors":"Steven Weinberg","bib_key":"ISBN:9781407063966","pub_date":"31 Aug 2010","snippet":"An understanding of nature's final laws may be within our grasp - a way of explaining forces and symmetries and articles that does not require further explanation. 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His earlier price-winning book聽<i>The First Three Minutes</i>聽is the classic account of the "Big Bang," the modern theory of the origins of the universe. Among his other books are聽<i>The Theory of Subatomic Particles聽</i>and聽<i>Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity</i>. Steven Weingberg is a member of the Royal Society of London as well as the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and has been awarded numerous honorary degrees, most recently from Columbia University and the Universities of Salamanca and Padua.</div></div></div></div><div class=vertical_module_list_row><h3 class="about_title">Bibliographic information</h3><div class="about_content" id="metadata_content" style="padding-bottom:.3em"><div class="metadata_sectionwrap"><table id="metadata_content_table"><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label">Title</td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature</span><br><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=bibliogroup:%22Vintage+books%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=3"><i><span dir=ltr>Vintage books</span></i></a></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Author</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><a 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