Saint Joan of New York A Novel About God and String Theory /

• Main Author: Alpert, Mark (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Science and Fiction,
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Metaphysics.; Psychology and religion.; Religion and sociology.; Popular Science in Physics.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Religion and Psychology.; Social Aspects of Religion.

SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything. Joan Cooper, a 17-year-old genius traumatized by the death of her older sister, tries to rebuild her shattered world by studying string theory and the efforts to unify the laws of p...

Table of Contents:

• Physics and the Search for Meaning
• Saint Joan of New York: A Novel about God and String Theory
• Author's Note.