The Nobel Prize-winning physicist describes the quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that explains events such as the pull of gravity and the cohesion inside of an atom. By the author of The First Three Minutes. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
9780679419235 | Pantheon Books, January 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A scientist recounts his search for the laws of nature, imagining the shape of a final theory on nature and the effects its discovery will have on the human spirit
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9780679744085 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1994), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Nobel Prize-winning physicist describes the quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that explains events such as the pull of gravity and the cohesion inside of an atom
Product Description: Since Robert Oppenheimer called the first Shelter island conference in 1947 to consolidate the advances in theoretical physics made during the war and to chart a course for the development of a "pure" physics far removed from defense applications, physics appears once again to have reached a critical juncture...read more
9780262100311 | Mit Pr, August 1, 1985, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Since Robert Oppenheimer called the first Shelter island conference in 1947 to consolidate the advances in theoretical physics made during the war and to chart a course for the development of a "pure" physics far removed from defense applications, physics appears once again to have reached a critical juncture.
An authoritative presentation of the widely accepted standard model of the universe's beginnings, detailing what is now believed, on the basis of recent discoveries, to have happened during the universe's first three minutes
9780553246827 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, July 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: An authoritative presentation of the widely accepted standard model of the universe's beginnings, detailing what is now believed, on the basis of recent discoveries, to have happened during the universe's first three minutes