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Spacetime Physics

By John Archibald Wheeler, Edwin F. Taylor

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| Paperback | 9780716723271

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Ideas First

This book is a courageous attemp to make special relativity more intuitive, easier and .. well fun. As such it could have been written only by two first class scientific minds and masters of physics like Taylor & Wheeler. The thing is... great scientist tend to have a distorted sense of what is fun ... (continue)

This book is a courageous attemp to make special relativity more intuitive, easier and .. well fun. As such it could have been written only by two first class scientific minds and masters of physics like Taylor & Wheeler. The thing is... great scientist tend to have a distorted sense of what is fun and, more important, what is easy...Some points in the book could have been explained in a clearer and less wordy way. I find the author's obsession with trying to explain everything geometrically a bit disturbing. But don't get me wrong, this text is a great accomplishment as it manages to give a clear, effective introduction to one of the most puzzling areas of physics, without burdening you with heavy math and tons of formulas. And what is most important, it makes you understand that in physics what is important is .. IDEAS.. not terse expositions, formulas, mathematical rigor.. as important as they are as aid to express ideas and obtain results.
Definetely a recommended read for anyone with a serious interest in special relativity. Only, don't let this be your only book on the subject.

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