You'll never view the cosmos the same way again. Written by a string theorist/mathematician, The Elegant Universe describes the ongoing development of superstring theory, the theory promising to unite all physical laws, matter and forces that comprise our universe. Despite being written in the late 1990s, this book is still relevant today. It also gives you a thorough review of the milestones that led up to the “superstring revolution“: special relativity, general relativity and quantum mechanics.
This book is meant for the reader with little to no knowledge of theoretical physics (which includes me). My high school physics courses, dealing only in classical Newtonian physics, never offered me a hint as to how utterly beautiful physics can be, nor how wondrous a picture it paints of our universe. This book makes me wish I had a classmate who told me, “Just be patient. This will all get a bit more interesting.“