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Science 11 February 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5711, pp. 852 - 853
DOI: 10.1126/science.1106081
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PHYSICS:
Treks of Imagination

A review by Frank Wilczek

The Road to Reality A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
by Roger Penrose
Jonathan Cape, London, 2004. 1122 pp. £30, C$85. ISBN 0-224-04447-8. Knopf, New York, 2005. $40. ISBN 0-679-45443-8.

The author offers a comprehensive account of his perspective on our understanding of the physical behavior of the universe and the mathematical theory that underlies it.
The reviewer is in the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA. E-mail: wilczek{at}mit.edu

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