The Elegant Universe

After Bryson and Harari, Greene gives us a wonderful, focused, science-oriented summary of cosmology and particle physics written for the layperson. While relatively easy to understand, he deals with the huge issues of where our universe came from and what it’s made of. I love the way these three authors strive from different vantage points to educate us and introduce us to the most fundamental questions of human life.

Theoretical physics, though might be the best way to explain and investigate our physical reality, could be very complicated to the extent that it became a synonym incomprehensible to some. In this book, Brian Greene explains the most complicated concepts in physics in an elegantly simple way that allows a 12-year-old kid to understand them perfectly well. 

If you are going to get all nerdy and interested in alternative universes, parallel realities, etc. then you might as well look at the science behind it all. In no way am I saying that I fully understand superstring theory, but after reading this book I possibly understand it a little better than I did! Written in a non-mathematical way for the complete layman by a physicist who knows his stuff. This book demonstrates that some things are stranger than fiction, and that just maybe there are other versions of you out there who are reading this right now…