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Originally Posted by Steve Limpus
Hey Tensor, everybody. Thanks. I've a bit of reading to do! I enjoy the historical aspect of these ideas as much as the scientific (very much at layman level both, the gnarly mathematics I skip altogether). The personalities I like too; some of these guys are just so damn smart!
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Steve, if the above is the case, run, don't walk, to your computer, get your fingers to clicking and get
thisbook. I can't recommend it highly enough for a good introduction to SR and GR for laymen. It has a great historical flow with almost no math, and yet does a good job of getting the main ideas across.
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Originally Posted by Steve Limpus
While I find GR and SR satisying, I can't help but feeling we're at a point similar to the turn of the last century: someone is gonna come along and do for Einstein what Einstein did for Newton. Just hope we're all still around when it happens. Can't wait for the LHC to fire off... and all the bad boy new telescopes.
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hehehehehehe, it may have already happened. Don't know if you've been looking around at other threads, but
this thread is discussing just that possibility.