George Musser is a staff editor and writer for Scientific American magazine. He was awarded the 2010 Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award by the American Astronomical Society. He was the originator and one of the lead editors for the magazine's special issue "A Matter of Time" (Sept. 2002), which won a National Magazine Award for editorial excellence, and he coordinated the single-topic issue "Crossroads for Planet Earth" (Sept. 2005), which won a Global Media Award from the Population Institute and was a National Magazine Award finalist.
"Despite the crazy title, this is an excellent popular account of
string theory. As the astronomer Martin Rees writes in the
foreword, 'For aliens, string theory may be a doddle. But for most
of us humans, they are a Himalayan challenge.' So, this book is to
be welcomed, not only for explaining the physics in an easily
assimilated way, but also for articulating why superstrings and the
rest of fundamental physics matter at all. This is something that
physicists themselves rarely do. Best of all, Musser, a staff
editor and writer at Scientific American, tackles the controversial
aspects of string theory, which have been the subject of much
journalistic nonsense lately, and gets it all just about
right."
--Physics World, December 2008 ..". is actually a thoroughly
worthwhile read, doing as good a job as you could hope for in
reducing the Gordian complexity of string theory into something
that intelligent readers feel that they understand."
--Physics Education, November 2008
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