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What is superstring theory and why is it important? Can superstrings offer the fulfilment of Einsteins lifelong dream of a Theory of Everything? Co-authored by Michio Kaku, one of the leading pioneers of superstrings, this is a thrilling account of the discoveries that have led scientists to the brightest new prospect in theoretical physics today. With all the excitement of a detective story, this book contains the newest ground-breaking research in physics, and offers a fascinating look at the scientific research that may make the impossible possible.

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title:Beyond Einstein : Superstrings and the Quest for the Final Theory
author:Kaku, Michio.; Thompson, Jennifer Trainer.
publisher:Oxford University Press
isbn10 | asin:0192861964
print isbn13:9780192861962
ebook isbn13:9780585217871
language:English
subjectUnified field theories, Supersymmetry, Cosmology.
publication date:1997
lcc:QC794.6.G7K35 1997eb
ddc:539.7/258
subject:Unified field theories, Supersymmetry, Cosmology.
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Beyond Einstein
Michio Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard and received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, and has taught at Princeton University. He is the co-founder of string field theory, has written eight books, and has published more than seventy scientific papers on superstrings, supergravity, and nuclear physics. He is the author of the widely acclaimed bestsellers Hyperspace (OUP, 1994), which both the New York Times and the Washington Post selected as one of the best science books of the year, and Visions, published by OUP in 1998.
Jennifer Trainer Thompson is a writer and the coeditor with Michio Kaku of Nuclear Power: Both Sides. Her articles on science, culture, travel, and food have appeared in many publications, including the New York Times.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank Brigita Fuhrmann and Cheryl Murphy for their drawings, and Michael Albert, David Aplin, Howard Chang, Daniel Greenberger, Arthur I. Miller, Heinz Pagels, and John Schwarz for their generous assistance.
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Beyond Einstein
The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe
Michio Kaku
and Jennifer Thompson
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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1987, 1995 by Michio Kaku and Jennifer Trainer Thompson
First edition published 1987 by Bantam Books
Revised and updated edition published 1995 by Anchor Books,
Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
First published (with revisions and a new afterword) as an Oxford University Press
paperback 1997
Reissued in new covers 1999
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Kaku, Michio.
Beyond Einstein: the cosmic quest for the theory of the universe
/Michio Kaku and Jennifer Trainer Thompson.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Unified field theories. 2. Supersymmetry. 3. Cosmology.
I. Thompson, Jennifer Trainer. II. Title.
QC794.6.G7K35 1997 539.7'258dc21 97-19511
ISBN 0-19-286196-4 (pbk.)
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3
Printed in Great Britain by
Cox and Wyman Ltd
Reading, Berkshire
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
v
Introduction
ix
Part I
A Theory of the Universe
1
Superstrings: A Theory of Everything?
3
2
The Quest for Unification
17
3
The Quantum Puzzle
35
4
The Riddle of Infinities
53
5
The Top Quark
72
Part II
Supersymmetry and Superstrings
6
The Birth of the Superstring Theory
81
7
Symmetry: The Missing Link
99
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