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Book Recommendation: The Fabric Of The Cosmos By Brian Greene

Posted on Sunday May 29, 2016 9:45AM by SJ — No Comments ↓

My last book recommendation was also science related, but you can’t really get enough science, so here is my current reco, Brian Greene’s ‘The Fabric Of The Cosmos’. Brian Greene covers bits of General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and other cool topics to help non-science majors get a better understanding of the underlying nature of the Universe.

Brian Greene is a superb science communicator and is also a String Theorist, so in addition to well-proven theories of physics, he also teases us with hints of what we might discover or prove in the future as technology and experiment methods improve. It’s also a very math-lite book, there won’t be any equations to solve or tests to take, just a bunch of cool insights into space and time.

Enjoy!

Book Recommendation: From Eternity To Here By Sean Carroll

Posted on Thursday Apr 28, 2016 5:36PM by SJ — No Comments ↓

I recently read Sean Carroll’s ‘From Eternity To Here’ and I thought it was a superb explanation of the physics that might lead us to understanding time. But don’t be fooled into thinking it has the answer to “what is time?”, we still don’t have aÂ full understanding, fortunately we do however have General Relativity, Quantum Field Theory, Entropy, and a bunch of other cool theories that ProfessorÂ Carroll ties together very clearly. It’s very light on math also, in case you happen to have that phobia.

‘From Eternity To Here’ also includes bits of interesting history of how we have perceived and explained time and cool stories of the physicists and their discoveries.

Enjoy!