I'm attempting Elegant Universe again. But this thing was originally written in 1999, and I'm wondering how out of date it might be, given the Hadron Collider and Higgs Boson and all that stuff. Anyone have a newer book like that about the latest and greatest physics concepts that's written for idiots like me?
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil Degrasse Tyson. My favorite book from 2021. Comprehensive and deep, but he makes it so simple a lawyer can understand it.
Also, The Big Picture by Sean Carroll. I understood maybe 70% of it.