Notice: I am writing more than one review in a month, good for me! To be fair, I didn't write anything in July. And I actually finished Middlesex in July. To also be fair, I am over halfway through my current read (within two days; it's going quickly) and will likely be reviewing that fun dude before the end of the month. If you want a whopping great clue as to what that book is, click here to see that it's been a while and I may or may not be grateful (for the first time ever) for authors who casually (or even not-so-casually) recap the previous book(s) within the narration.
I'm a bit loopy from a few weeks of low-quality and grudging sleep for no apparent reason, so...this could be fun. If it isn't already.
In The Elegant Universe, physicist Brian Greene tells the story of string theory, the theory that might be the answer to the conflict at the center of the last hundred years of physics, and might be the ultimate theory of everything. He begins with descriptions of relativity and quantum mechanics, then details how they clash and cannot both be correct in their current formulations. The remainder of the book is an explanation and exploration of string theory's history, workings, successes, puzzles, and potential.