{"product_id":"the-road-to-reality-a-complete-guide-to-the-laws-of-the-universe","title":"The Road to Reality : A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe","description":"From one of our greatest living scientists  a magnificent book that provides  for the serious lay reader  the most comprehensive and sophisticated account we have yet had of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory.  Since the earliest efforts of the ancient Greeks to find order amid the chaos around us  there has been continual accelerated progress toward understanding the laws that govern our universe. And the particularly important advances made by means of the revolutionary theories of relativity and quantum mechanics have deeply altered our vision of the cosmos and provided us with models of unprecedented accuracy.  What Roger Penrose so brilliantly accomplishes in this book is threefold. First  he gives us an overall narrative description of our present understanding of the universe and its physical behaviorsfrom the unseeable  minuscule movement of the subatomic particle to the journeys of the planets and the stars in the vastness of time and space.  Second  he evokes the extraordinary beauty that lies in the mysterious and profound relationships between these physical behaviors and the subtle mathematical ideas that explain and interpret them.  Third  Penrose comes to the arresting conclusionas he explores the compatibility of the two grand classic theories of modern physicsthat Einsteins general theory of relativity stands firm while quantum theory  as presently constituted  still needs refashioning.  Along the way  he talks about a wealth of issues  controversies  and phenomena; about the roles of various kinds of numbers in physics  ideas of calculus and modern geometry  visions of infinity  the big bang  black holes  the profound challenge of the second law of thermodynamics  string and M theory  loop quantum gravity  twistors  and educated guesses about science in the near future. In The Road to Reality he has given us a work of enormous scope  intention  and achievementa complete and essential work of science","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44799247974453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679454438","price":49.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0679454438.jpg?v=1763115518","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-road-to-reality-a-complete-guide-to-the-laws-of-the-universe","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}