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fckm is right, most of the physics taught in high schools today is physics as the world knew it in the 1900s. We've come a long way since then, but many people are discomforted by the idea that reality can be so utterly different than what they've expierienced in the mild conditions on earth. I just took a very interesting physics course that touched on special relativity- the professor wrote his own text book which explained the reason why the speed of light is constant to all observers very well. Unfortunately I don't have that book with me right now and I would definately confuse and mix the ideas up if I tried to explain it from memory.
Also, Richard Feynman is the shit. Someone gave me Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! for christmas and I highly reccomend it. His stories about picking the safes in Los Alamos that contained the sum of American nuclear weapons knowledge as a way to relieve boredom during the cold war when everyone was freaked out about security are very intertaining and well worth the read.
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