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hI loved "Why String Theory" book by Joseph Conlon and am hungry for more
I am not a physicist but was intrigued by the controversy surrounding String Theory. Having read certain blog articles and PBS space time videos, I wanted a historical perspective and how things progressed in this space and this book answered all my questions. I won't pretend to understand all the stuff but atleast it gave me an illusion of understanding and why String theory research is still so important. The thing that struck me out was the author is totally objective in conveying information and does not seem to favor his pet theories. In this aspect, I was disappointed with other books such as Cosmic landscape by Susskind and Something deeply hidden by Sean Carroll (where he focuses much of his time on his favorite theory of many worlds interpretation) Also, his repeated emphasis on certain breakthroughs i.e. ow Ads = CFT and the fact how remarkable it is, I loved Conlon's enthusiasm.
I would love to read more books like this where the author has an infectious enthusiasm but he can still be objective in his treatment. Some other books I have enjoyed recently are Fermat's last theorem by Simon Singh and Beyond Weird by Philip Ball.
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I am not a physicist but was intrigued by the controversy surrounding String Theory. Having read certain blog articles and PBS space time videos, I wanted a historical perspective and how things progressed in this space and this book answered all my questions. I won't pretend to understand all the stuff but atleast it gave me an illusion of understanding and why String theory research is still so important. The thing that struck me out was the author is totally objective in conveying information and does not seem to favor his pet theories. In this aspect, I was disappointed with other books such as Cosmic landscape by Susskind and Something deeply hidden by Sean Carroll (where he focuses much of his time on his favorite theory of many worlds interpretation) Also, his repeated emphasis on certain breakthroughs i.e. ow Ads = CFT and the fact how remarkable it is, I loved Conlon's enthusiasm.
I would love to read more books like this where the author has an infectious enthusiasm but he can still be objective in his treatment. Some other books I have enjoyed recently are Fermat's last theorem by Simon Singh and Beyond Weird by Philip Ball.
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