Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
10.5
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
58213
Points per Word
0.000206
Page Count
246
Points per Page
0.04878
Description
This book traces scientists' quest for the unified "Theory of Everything" from ancient Greece to the breakthroughs of Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein, to the excitement over string theory and today's efforts to merge quantum theory with general relativity.