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The Second Creation is a detailed account of the collaborative efforts of physicists throughout the 20th century to unify the forces of nature into a single theory. Robert P. Crease and Charles Mann draw upon interviews with luminaries like Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, and Steven Weinberg, vividly recounting the pivotal moments and scientific advancements that led to the eventual creation of the Standard Model of Particle Physics and its unification with general relativity. This definitive work explores the lives and work of these groundbreaking scientists, offering a rich portrayal of the pursuit of the theory of everything.
First publish date: 1986
Genre: Science/Physics
Authors: Robert P. Crease
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