Recommend me a book...

[RESmonkey]

I want to learn more about Physics and what not. I've taken a college Physics course in high school, and will be taking a real college physics course this fall.

I remember someone saying something about General Relativity or something. Any books Einstein wrote? Anything is fine, actually.

 

[Legendary]

the elegant universe

 

[Scarpozzi]

I don't read much. Why don't you just buy the Movie?

 

[SlitheryDee]

Stephen Hawking's stuff is good. I really enjoyed "The Universe in a Nutshell".

 

[RESmonkey]

Originally posted by: Legendary
the elegant universe

The book is different from the PBS special, right?

And SlitherDee, how is "A Brief History of Time"? I'm going to google around with Universe in a Nutshell.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

The Trouble With Physics- Lee Smolin. Also all the above

 

[Inspector Jihad]

genesis

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Stephen Hawking's stuff is good. I really enjoyed "The Universe in a Nutshell".

LOL, as brilliant as Stephen Hawiking no doubt is, I did not find "A Brief History of Time" to be all that clearly written and would hesitate to reccomend it to a noob trying to get a handle on the subject.

 

[FDF12389]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
genesis

FTW

 

[RESmonkey]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Stephen Hawking's stuff is good. I really enjoyed "The Universe in a Nutshell".

LOL, as brilliant as Stephen Hawiking no doubt is, I did not find "A Brief History of Time" to be all that clearly written and would hesitate to reccomend it to a noob trying to get a handle on the subject.

gotcha

And what's all this genesis talk here? Bible jokes?

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Stephen Hawking's stuff is good. I really enjoyed "The Universe in a Nutshell".

LOL, as brilliant as Stephen Hawiking no doubt is, I did not find "A Brief History of Time" to be all that clearly written and would hesitate to reccomend it to a noob trying to get a handle on the subject.

The Universe in a Nutshell is pretty simply worded. I'm no physicist myself and I had little trouble grasping most of the concepts in it. At times I did get the sense that he was explaining something in words that probably made much more sense as equations though. It's not dry at all either. There are parts that I thought were pretty funny, like this one section where he's bragging about being in an episode of Star Trek in the course of explaining a concept. I found it to be an easy read overall though I haven't read "A Brief History of Time" and can't say how it compares.

 

[daveshel]

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.

 

[ManBearPig]

i didn't have that much trouble with a brief history of time and i'm not too smart. i guess it varies by person. good book though.