Whatcha reading?

manasecret · 07-17-2008, 09:02 PM

I just finished The Elegant Universe. It's about string theory. Professor S, something you'd might be interested in.

That one is from around the mid- to late-nineties, so it's a bit out of date especially considering the fast pace of string theory, or M-theory as it is known now. So I am on to Greene's sequel of sorts, The Fabric of the Cosmos. Hopefully they've figured out some of the stuff they hadn't yet figured out by the time Elegant Universe was published.

Dylflon · 07-17-2008, 09:21 PM

Reading A Game of Thrones, first book in the series A Song of Fire and Ice. I'm surprised by how good it is.

Vampyr · 07-18-2008, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Dylflon

Reading A Game of Thrones, first book in the series A Song of Fire and Ice. I'm surprised by how good it is.

Fantastic series. I'm on the third book.

KillerGremlin · 07-20-2008, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by manasecret

I just finished The Elegant Universe. It's about string theory. Professor S, something you'd might be interested in.

That one is from around the mid- to late-nineties, so it's a bit out of date especially considering the fast pace of string theory, or M-theory as it is known now. So I am on to Greene's sequel of sorts, The Fabric of the Cosmos. Hopefully they've figured out some of the stuff they hadn't yet figured out by the time Elegant Universe was published.

String Theory might suck the big one if they don't find the Higgs Boson with the CERN.