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The Big Picture (Sean Carroll)
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RE: The Big Picture (Sean Carroll)
(February 4, 2018 at 9:15 am)Grandizer Wrote:
(February 4, 2018 at 9:11 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Sounds like a very interesting read, but how smart do you have to be to understand it?  I’d love to take a crack at it but I’m no physicist.  Is it written so that an average shmuck like me could grasp it?  I gave ‘A Universe from Nothing’ everything I had, and I’m pretty sure I had smoke coming out of my ears, lol.

Let's just say you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand what he's saying in this book. In fact, this book is meant for laypeople like us, not for the really smart who already know most of the advanced stuff to do with cosmology and metaphysics and all that. But it does seem like some basic understanding of physics is suggested (velocity, momentum, and stuff like that), but it's not a big deal anyhow.

Awesome.  That sounds totally manageable.  I’ll definitely check it out.  Thanks for the recommendation!
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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Messages In This Thread
The Big Picture (Sean Carroll) - by Grandizer - February 4, 2018 at 8:10 am
RE: The Big Picture (Sean Carroll) - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 4, 2018 at 8:34 am
RE: The Big Picture (Sean Carroll) - by LadyForCamus - February 4, 2018 at 9:11 am
RE: The Big Picture (Sean Carroll) - by Grandizer - February 4, 2018 at 9:15 am
RE: The Big Picture (Sean Carroll) - by LadyForCamus - February 4, 2018 at 9:21 am
RE: The Big Picture (Sean Carroll) - by Grandizer - February 6, 2018 at 11:05 pm

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