Captivating and challenging

Demanding, yes, for someone like me who has no scientific training. But thanks to the captivating pedagogical talent of the author, who manages to put within reach of the average reader without using intimidating equations, notions sometimes impossible to truly visualize and represent mentally (eg ten-dimensional spaces) .

Brian Greene uses metaphors in pictorial stories, real-life anecdotes to give the layman the desire to make the effort to follow through. It is worth taking the trouble to memorize some concepts, such as supersymmetry or the coupling constant. Fortunately, a glossary allows us to refresh our memory during playback.

String theory is not yet, says the author, be verified experimentally, for lack of sufficiently powerful particle accelerators. The leading researchers who are developing must advance through extremely complex and difficult mathematical approaches, even the infirm experience that results in the coming decades ... String theory does offer the possibility of reconciling so elegant and coherent theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics. It has a very attractive and promising model of description of reality beyond appearances.

This book is great and I can only recommend reading.