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Originally Posted by Thor
Its sitting in my bookshelf with another 12 books' I've got in queue to read 
I need to stop looking at amazon until I'm down to 2 books left.
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Brian Greene is amazing. The guy just has a way of explaining complex theoretical physics in a way that is completely understandable but never misses the point. The section in the Fabric of the Cosmos about symmetry as fundamental to science, and from there into the Higgs field, the electroweak force, and the universe's "phase transition" into a state where the Higgs field becomes influential on the origins of mass SHOULD be astoundingly confusing (to me, anyway), but he makes it sound elementary. It's easily one of my top 5 books. I can't wait to start his book on superstring theory, the Elegant Universe. I think that's the one they're talking about in that video.