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Do you know any book to be read by the general public written by someone that works on field theories ?
Even tough I am physicist, I appreciate the informal and very intuitive description of theories that appears in those kinds of books.
 

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Have looked at Road to Reality by Roger Penrose?
 
Yes, that one I know. Would you know other book?
 

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