What started as a fairly interesting look at new ideas about the big bang quickly degenerated into a tirade about atheism that failed to engage the arguments of the other side in favor of triumphal declarations which were poorly supported. Personally, I am neither an atheist nor a monotheist, so ...
Very interesting biography of Feynman. I ranked it highly because of its unusual nature. This biography is much more concerned with his science and how his personality led him to be the great scientist he was. If you are not inclined to understand the history of modern physics, this book is prob...
There are a few gems in this book. Krauss dedicates some time to explaining how scientists (physicists in particular) think. He scratches the surface of why this is successful (and even talks about when it hasn't been as successful).But the title of the book is misleading. This book is mostly ane...
Sometimes I feel that some -- repeat, some -- popular physics writers forget that they write for people without physics background. Well, that applies to this book.Don't get me wrong, I like Lawrence Krauss; his "Physics of Star Trek" was good. Unfortunately in this one he seemed to miss what mad...
Q, upon joining the crew of the Enterprise, in “DŽjˆ Q” "Restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation ... whenever possible.... The colony is integrated as though it were in fact one organism ruled by a genome that constrains behavior as it also en...
—Richard Feynman Language, a human invention, is a mirror for the soul. It is through language that a good novel, play, or poem teaches us about our own humanity. Mathematics, on the other hand, is the language of nature and so provides a mirror for the physical world. It is precise, clean, diver...
I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. So begins perhaps the most famous mathematical romance ever written. Penned in 1884, twenty-one years before Albert Einstein revolutionized our notio...