RE: Book Recommendations?
January 22, 2015 at 5:51 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 5:52 pm by Faith No More.)
(January 22, 2015 at 5:24 pm)Napoléon Wrote: I'm currently reading Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Death by Black Hole. Wondering if anyone has similar suggestions to this, I read Hawking's Brief history of time not too long ago too and while I'm not normally a big reader I can get into these types 'sciencey' books quite easily...
"Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene is great. It's all about the nature of space and time and trying to understanding why we observe time flowing in the direction we do. It takes really esoteric concepts that require a Ph.D in mathematics to understand and makes them easier to absorb, however, that leads to a lot of you're-just-going-to-have-to-trust-me moments.
The QM section is a bit of a struggle to understand due to the fact that it's so counter-intuitive, but overall the book is fantastic, especially for those that have a layman's understaning of theroetical physics like myself.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
