The trouble with physics: the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next

In this groundbreaking book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that physics - the basis for all other sciences - has lost its way. For more than two centuries, our understanding of the laws of nature expanded rapidly. But today, despite our best efforts, we know nothing more about these laws than we knew in the 1970s. Why is physics suddenly in trouble? And what can we do about it? One of the major problems, according to Smolin, is string theory: an ambitious attempt to formulate a "theory of everything" that explains all the particles and forces of nature and how the univer