RaveThe Wall Street Journal[T]his is an excellent book written by a masterful science communicator elaborating on a subject that is his research home turf—superstring theory ... If there is anyone who can demystify the esoteric mathematics and physics of string theory, it is he. And in this wonderful little book, that is precisely what he does—explain in clear and simple terms the conceptual breakthroughs, the blind alleys and the unanswered questions—in the search for a grand unified theory of everything. Most of all, what I like best is that he remains open to the possibility that there may ultimately not be a single unifying theory after all, encoded into a single tidy equation ... The God Equation dazzles in its account of the unfinished quest for a grand unified theory ... Mr. Kaku, a consummate storyteller, provides an engaging, unvarnished account of the progression of science and the intellectual obstacles that have hampered the process of finding a theory of everything. His book presents cutting-edge ideas in theoretical physics, and primes readers to be ready when the next major breakthrough occurs. According to Mr. Kaku, that’s just a matter of time.
Brian Greene
RaveThe Wall Street JournalOur knowledge of our impermanence, Mr. Greene stresses, might just be what lures us to search for the eternal ... Mr. Greene explores this claim beautifully in the book by placing our \'pervasive need for coherence and value and meaning\' into the broadest possible cosmic context ... Mr. Greene tackles these profound questions with great skill. He weaves personal stories, scientific ideas, concepts and facts into a delightful tapestry that showcases the multiple points of view on these questions. Until the End of Time is organized into 11 thematic chapters that build up the argument deftly and deliberately ... What is remarkable about Mr. Greene’s book is how he has delved into deep questions that not only have no simple answers but may never be settled at all ... The crux of the issue lies in whether science as we know it can integrate subjective experience into its framework of objective reality. It is this grand unification that Mr. Greene has attempted in this ambitious and utterly readable book.
Carlos Rovelli, Trans. by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell
PositiveThe Wall Street JournalHumans have always been obsessed with time and have marked its passage in part by measuring it with ever increasing accuracy, yet its true nature has remained elusive. We all know from our subjective experience that when we are placed on hold while waiting for a representative, even a few minuites feel like eternity, while time appears to hurtle on when we are in the midst of a pleasurable activity...Though physics, philosophy and metaphysics have all grappled with the concept of time, we are still confounded by it.
Alan Stern and David Grinspoon
PositiveThe New York Review of BooksAlan Stern and David Grinspoon, offer ringside views of the exploration of the outer solar system, from the discovery more than two hundred years ago of planets beyond Saturn to the launch in 2006 of NASA’s New Horizons space mission to study Pluto’s environs ... Chasing New Horizon reveals the inside story of the mission’s failures and successes ... [a] gripping history ... Grinspoon recounts the entire journey, from the launch to a brief but alarming silence a mere ten days before the flyby, when the team lost contact with the probe.
