[markalpert]

Hello, my name is Mark Alpert and I'm an editor at Scientific American. I thought the readers of this forum might be interested in my new novel, FINAL THEORY, a thriller about Albert Einstein and the search for the Theory of Everything. The book will be published on June 3rd by the Touchstone imprint of Simon & Schuster, but you can go to my website -- www.markalpert.com -- for a sneak peek at the contents. I'd love to get some feedback from physicists!

[RascalPuff]

Originally Posted by markalpert Hello, my name is Mark Alpert and I'm an editor at Scientific American. I thought the readers of this forum might be interested in my new novel, FINAL THEORY, a thriller about Albert Einstein and the search for the Theory of Everything. The book will be published on June 3rd by the Touchstone imprint of Simon & Schuster, but you can go to my website -- www.markalpert.com -- for a sneak peek at the contents. I'd love to get some feedback from physicists!

Dear Mr. Alpert:
I am not a physicist and I haven't read your book yet, but my book, Total Field Theory, is condensed on this website; it's a reinstatement of Einstein's presently abandoned unified field and for that reason may be more than inadvertently germane to your work.
http://www.toequest.com/forum/toe-th...ies.html?ltr=T

Best regards,
- RP

[sillysally]

I'm not a physicist, but congratulations on your book publishing. I prolly won't ever get around to reading it unless it somehow falls into my lap, but I am sure plenty of people will go out of their way to find your book and read it.

Are you going to post here or just spam with your book ad?

[Graybeard]

Sal .... I think your mixture of naivety and perception are in perfect balance. Don't ever change.

cool bananas ... greg

[dleviwing]

Hi Mark;
It’s an honor to have you with ToeQuest; I hope you stay for more than just selling your book. The premise of your book is excellent; it should make it to the silver screen in no time. Almost 40 years ago I felt the same thing as I began to comprehend Relativity. Einstein may have actually realized the solution of the TOE and masked it into his equations with his 2c factor.

BTW: my name is David.

[markalpert]

David -- Thanks for the kind words. I'm very curious about what people on this forum thought of the cover story in New Scientist last week, "Four Radical Routes to a Theory of Everything." I'm fairly familiar with Causal Dynamical Triangulation -- I wrote a story about it for Scientific American about a year and a half ago -- but the other three approaches were new to me. Mark

[dleviwing]

Mark;
What are the four routs that Amanda Gifter is suggesting; my count is much higher than four!

I believe that the laws of physics that govern the macro world must also govern the micro world along with anything that existed before or after the big bang event. I think the key to understanding these absolute laws of physics is with the understanding of the cause of “mass”. On this dilemma, I agree with Feynman!

Is there anyone who actually knows what they are talking about when they use the phrase “extra spatial dimensions”?

[Profpat]

It looks like a good read Mark.

David is running for his life. The FBI and a ruthless Russian mercenary are vying to get their hands on the long-hidden theory.

And the long hidden theory is?

Hope you start a thread with your own theory.

Best to you and your book.

Pat