This book addresses some of the baffling questions encountered at
the final frontier of space and time related to particle physics
and cosmology in the context of recent iconoclastic observations
and developments. When particle physics stagnated in the early
seventies, a new development emerged - String Theory.For the past
25 years, String Theory, popularly called the "Theory of
Everything", has mesmerized not just scientists, but also the
general public. Yet a closer scrutiny today reveals that it is no
more than a mathematical marvel. It has neither predicted anything
nor has it been anywhere near verification. We are essentially
where we were in the early seventies.Another chronic problem that
Einstein had abandoned was the unified description of his theory of
General Relativity that deals with the Universe at large and
Electromagnetism which is to do with particles. Such a description
is necessary even if it warrants a radical departure from our
time-honoured ideas of space and time. A bright spot has now
appeared in Cosmology. Iconoclastic observations in the past years
have shown that the Universe is actually accelerating, driven by a
mysterious Dark Energy. This book takes the lay reader through
these uncharted waters and mind-boggling developments on an
unimaginable journey from the ultra small to the farthest stretches
conceivable, via such imagination defying concepts as extra
dimensions and multiple universes.
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