Review:A truly heroic effort to compile a history of physics from the pre-Greeks to the present, at least the first part of which should be accessible to the educated reader who is willing to expend a little mental effort. By and large, the book is successful in setting forth the thinking of the early natural philosophers Democritus (460-370BC), Plato (427-347BC), Aristotle (384-322BC) and their contemporaries and in describing the importance of the ideas of Galileo (1564-1642), Newton (1643-1727), F... Read more

Review:Always been very interested in Mr. Tesla. To me, the most under-estimated and under-credited inventor of all time. He was very far ahead of his time and very misunderstood. I wish the people back then had been more accepting of his ideas. I was glad to have more knowledge of his life and personality after reading this book. The only flaw was that it sometimes jumped back and forth in time from one chapter to the next. I would have preferred a more chronological structure to the book. Read more

Review:Hikers and armchair travelers alike will love this thoughtful meditation on all things trails. A true work of literature on par with some of the great nature writers, including Barry Lopez, Robert MacFarlane, John McPhee. I look forward to more works from this gifted young writer and explorer. Read more

Review:Two problems with the book:

1) You need to have a big interest in mathematics and geometry. The concepts and ideas described require you to have a preconcieved interest in both subjects (and be knowledgeable in both).
2) The language tries to be very "classy" and it doesn't help a book that is not easy in its content.

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Review:Modern physics is based on the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics, both of which have been proven true, which creates a devastating problem. Mathematically, the theories contradict each other and, according to Greene, cannot coexist. This problem led physicists like Einstein to try and find a universal theory that underlies these two and allows them to work harmoniously. They brought on the string theory, which is considered to be the complete theory that contains all of our... Read more

Review:David Deutsch fails to deliver a complete work to succeed his magnificent work, "The Fabric of Reality." I really enjoyed the first 121 pages or so, but when undetected, uncorrected errors creep in for no good reason, one wonders just how serious the author takes his own premise. As such, the remainder of the book became a chore to finish. A big disappointment to a promising start. Read more

Review:Although the four levels of infinities can nicely fit in our local universe ... even per person/instant, and thus make our eigenvector of constants just one of infinitelt many ... it somehow forgets to ponder that, of these infinities within infinities, there are likely to be constructs which utilize their universe in total, as a quantum-like computational system. Hard to imagine that neither Tegmark nor Hawking thought this through. Read more

Review:Science fiction can only hope to emulate the deep intricacy and magnificent wonder that the reality of our universe can boast. While seemingly complex and evasive in nature, the laws that govern our universe hold answers that may astound even the most imaginitive. Kip Thorne has elegantly captured the "majic" of the universe and tamed the unknown into an understandable context.
Understadable, that is, for anyone you has ever wondered about the universe and the mysteries it holds. Thorne's ... Read more

Review:absolutely fascinating delineation of what it took in people, ideas, time, governmental funding, invention and experimentation to confirm the existence of gravity waves posited by Einstein about 100 years ago.. Read more

Review:What a powerful book. Beautifully written. Oppenheimer was a near-mythical figure and suffered a tragedy that was undeserved and spiteful. A must-read for anyone who wants a better understanding of this man and the times in which he lived. Read more