The Road to Reality-- A Complete Guide To The Laws Of The Universe, and...
Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of The Universe.
Every now and then I like to attempt to can catchup on the state of physics. With Penrose winning a Nobel in Physics, I thought I'd go through some of his books.
These books are very dense. Not light reading.
The Road To Reality is a great reference. If I wanted to know the math behind something, say String Theory or Quantum Gravity, I could look it up in in this book. Then, when I didn't understand part of that explanation, the book would offer me pointers to the math and science that I needed. And so on, all the way back to the roots of science and mathematics.
Fashion, Faith and Fantasy is different in that it tells more of the narrative of various problems in physics, who is investigating them, why they are important, and the directions the solutions are headed in.
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