The Trouble with Physics is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics of how we got from Einstein & Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange & bizarre predictions of string theory full of unseen
Dimensions & multiple universes Lee Smolin not only provides a brilliant layman's overview of current research as we attempt to build a 'theory of everything' but also questions many of the assumptions that lie behind string theory In doing so he describes some of the daring outlandish ideas that will propel research in years to come