Richard Morris
The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything
What We Know and How We Know It

The Universe …
Morris begins at the beginning — the creation of the universe — and takes the reader through the latest research in the field, explaining why scientists now believe the cosmos is being pulled apart instead of ending in a "big crunch."

The Eleventh Dimension …
The first three dimensions are easy. We live in them. The fourth is time. The eleventh dimension? Another story altogether. In the search for a theory of matter, scientists are trying to explain all four forces of nature — gravity, strong and weak nuclear forces, and electromagnetism — through one unified theory. String theory is possibly a key element, which could suggest the existence of other dimensions.

And Everything
This part of the book is dedicated to the creative process, its successes and pitfalls. The creative mind works in certain characteristic ways. The subject matter may be different — whether physics or biology, art or music — but the workings of the human mind remain much the same. The scientific imagination is not infallible, and studying the errors that the human imagination can produce gives one a better understanding of what has led to discoveries that increase our knowledge of the natural world.

Richard Morris is the author of more than twenty books, ten of which have been about science, including Achilles in the Quantum Universe (Henry Holt & Company), Cosmic Questions (John Wiley & Sons), and Dismantling the Universe (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster). He earned a Ph.D. in physics in 1969 and lives in San Francisco.

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