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Published by Basic Books, 1994, softcover, index, 276 pages, condition: as new.

For more than a century physicists have hoped that they were closing in on the Holy Grail of modern science: a unified theory that would make sense of the entire physical world, from the subnuclear realm of quarks and gluons to the very moment of creation of the universe. The End of Physics is a history of the attempts to find such a theory of everything; a forceful argument it will never be found; and a warning that the compromises necessary to produce a final theory may well undermine the rules of good science.At the heart of Lindleys story is the rise of the particle physicists and their attempts to reach far out into the cosmos for a unifying theory. Working beyond the grasp of the largest telescopes or the most powerful particle accelerators, and unable to subject their findings and theories to experimental scrutiny, they have moved into a world governed entirely by mathematical and highly speculative theorizing, none of which can be empirically verified. Lindley argues that a theory of everything derived from particle physics will be full of untestedand untestableassumptions. And if physicists yield to such speculation, the field will retreat from the high ground of science, becoming instead a modern mythology. This would mean the end of physics as we know it.

David Lindley superbly wrote this great book summing up so much about classical physics and modern physics. I have read it more than 5 times from end to end and still learn new things about it. This is to me a treasure in term of 19 and 20th century physics. General readers may need a little bit of knowledge about physics in order to appreciate it.
I rate it a 6 or 7 stars on my scale.
I also read all of his other books and find them all excellently written.
While he may not be that popular as compared to others but to me in particular hes a great science writer.

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