The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, Bantam, £20,
ISBN 0593 048156
IS THE end of theoretical physics still in sight? Have we yet peered into the
mind of God? It’s well over a decade since the astonishing success of A
Brief History of Time, with its suggestion that physics was close to
telling us why the Universe is the way it is. Since then there’s been a slump in
the fortunes of would-be theories of everything, but now something called
M-theory has put optimism in style again. In The Universe in a Nutshell,
Hawking paints an intriguing picture…
