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The Road to Reality

Overview

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe is a popular science book on modern physics by the British mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, published in 2004. It covers the basics of the Standard Model of particle physics, discussing general relativity and quantum mechanics, and discusses the possible unification of these two theories.

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Philosophers who discussed The Road to Reality

• Roger Penrose

Related ideas

• General relativity
• Loop quantum gravity
• The Guardian
• Physics
• Particle physics
• Quantum mechanics
• Quantum field theory
• Roger Penrose
• String theory
• The New York Times
• Sui generis
• Standard Model
• Measurement problem

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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