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Einstein and the Generations of Science

Author: Lewis S. Feuer
ISBN: 0878558993
Publisher: Transaction Publishers         Place:
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Format: Paperback         # Pages: 374
Reader Rating: 5.0 (1 votes)
Release: 1989
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Summary: I have a translated version of this book-Hebrew. It was a wonderful feeling to scan through 200 years of scientific events and how they are connected. In some cases it seems un-believable, childish, and politicized. I did not like the superlativity in the book, sometime I felt it was like a religous sermon. Generally, this book provides execelent summary of the famous scientists; and a young person, with interest in science, will understand there is nothing absolute, and the negative/positive compatetive world exist also in the science communities. Final note, a successful new theories should have friends in the circle of the decision makers-to secur funding and emotional support.


 

Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Author: Max Born
ISBN: 0486607690
Publisher: Dover Publications         Place:
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Format: Paperback         # Pages: 376
Reader Rating: 4.5 (7 votes)
Release: 1962
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Summary: This excellent, semi-technical account includes a review of classical physics (origin of space and time measurements, Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy, laws of motion, inertia, and more) and coverage of Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity, discussing the concept of simultaneity, kinematics, Einstein’s mechanics and dynamics, and more.


 

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Author: Brian Greene
ISBN: 0375708111
Publisher: Vintage         Place:
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Format: Paperback         # Pages: 464
Reader Rating: 4.5 (442 votes)
Release: 2000
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Summary: There is an ill-concealed skeleton in the closet of physics: "As they are currently formulated, general relativity and quantum mechanics "cannot both be right"." Each is exceedingly accurate in its field: general relativity explains the behavior of the universe at large scales, while quantum mechanics describes the behavior of subatomic particles. Yet the theories collide horribly under extreme conditions such as black holes or times close to the big bang. Brian Greene, a specialist in quantum field theory, believes that the two pillars of physics can be reconciled in superstring theory, a theory of everything.
Superstring theory has been called "a part of 21st-century physics that fell by chance into the 20th century." In other words, it isn't all worked out yet. Despite the uncertainties--"string theorists work to find approximate solutions to approximate equations"--Greene gives a tour of string theory solid enough to satisfy the scientifically literate.
Though Ed Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study is in many ways the human hero of "The Elegant Universe", it is not a human-side-of-physics story. Greene's focus throughout is the science, and he gives the nonspecialist at least an illusion of understanding--or the sense of knowing what it is that you don't know. And that is traditionally the first step on the road to knowledge. "--Mary Ellen Curtin"


 

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