Dimensions
106 x 138 x 17mm
2 Cassettes; abridged
Read by Steven Weinberg
This tells the story of a great intellectual adventure of our time: the search for nature's fundamental laws and the final answer to our questions about why nature is the way it is. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Weinberg imagines the shape of a final theory and the effect its discovery would have on the human spirit. He gives a defence of reductionism (the impulse to trace explanations of natural phenomena to deeper and deeper levels) and examines the curious relevance of beauty and symmetry in scientific theories.
He also gives a personal account of the search for the laws of nature, and shares with us glimpses that scientists have had from time to time that there is something behind the blackboard, that there is a deeper truth foreshadowing a final theory.
