The Fabric of the Cosmos
Brian Greene
12 people recommended it in 11 threads, 2007–2024.
What people on Hacker News said
Mind-blowing primer on physics, all the way from Newtonian physics, to General Relativity, to Quantum Mechanics, to String Theory (and beyond). Concepts explained without a single equation.
He uses genius analogies to simplify complex concepts. Reading the book is very mind-expanding.
Brian is a fluke of nature--a physicist who can explain things realy well!
The mind boggling science of the very big and very small laced with small doses of humor and philosophy.
vulgarizes relativity and quantum theories and touches upon string theory, emphasizing the consequences of those theories on the properties of space and time.
Mind-bending explanations of modern physics and how our Newtonian intuition is far from reality.
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