On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:38:35PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Samuel Tesla thought:
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> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Brian Sweeney wrote:
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> > I read a really good book a while back called "Physics for the Rest of
> > Us"(HIGHLY recommended for those curious about modern physics) Good way to
> > say newbie without saying "dummie", I thought.
> >
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> One of the books I like to recommend when it comes to describing physics to a
> layman is "The Dancing Wu Li Masters." Spectacular description of particle
> physics...and done in a way that most everybody can grok it.
>
> "The Elegant Universe" is another really good one...that's about super-string
> theory.
I've always enjoyed Issac Asimov's Science for the layman type books /
articles. They won't be quite up to date since he's dead now (Boo Hoo!)
but good and non techie enough for all.
Conor (Who recently got a present of "Issac Asimov's guide to the Bible")
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