Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

[Tyler Durden]

Tim May wrote...

"Hawking writes about fairly established stuff, the usual black hole stuff. This was mostly old hat 30 years ago (which is when I took Jim Hartle's class on general relativity). Hawking doesn't get much into the newer theories, at least not in any of the books of his I've skimmed."

Check out the last three or four chapters of "Universe in a Nutshell". He actually does a good job of descibing M-theory and some of the experimental work that is now going on to search for "missing energy" radiating from bodies such as the sun. (Actually, the book is a good gift for non-Physicsts---nice illustrations and the occasional gag from Hawking).

-TD


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