Reviews
Good but long read.
I like the way Brian explains physics. This book can be highly technical for just a beginner to physics. Loved the book looking to buy his other books.
I enjoyed the backgrounds in quantum mechanics and relativity more than the primary topic of the book: string theory. String theory is certainly fascinating as a potential "theory of everything", but it's hard to assemble a primer on the subject for those of us that aren't theoretical physicists. It gets wild and abstract pretty quick.
Very difficult topic to explain to mere mortals. I struggled with keeping all the information together and making sense. It is a good book and explains fairly well using examples, but sometimes feels like the book wonders off on a tangent for a bit and my brain doesn't have the ability to get back to the main discussions, when the book returns.
The beginning of the book was alright, but then quality dropped, and complexity climbed... Yet the string theory is soooo complicated, whereas if you can't put things simply they just might not be accurate.. so leaves one wondering...
Don't be intimidated by the title. Brian Greene is an excellent writer and a good teacher; the book is written so it's accessible by anyone. All the complicated math is in the index, if you want to look at it, but he leaves it out in the main text making the book very reader friendly. Thoroughly interesting.
“...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.”
