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stingc · 12-10-2003, 11:37 AM

I agree that Black Holes and Time Warps is an excellent book. Besides the physics, it has a lot of discussion of the personal lives of the scientists involved, which I enjoy, but some people don't.

Thorne's book talks about classical general relativity, which is now almost 90 years old (but still not understood very well). Modern physics has been trying to go beyond this to what's called quantum gravity. All of the ideas in quantum gravity are very speculative, but if you want to see that perspective anyways, I've heard that Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin is a good book. I haven't read it myself though.

edit: I think that you're referring to Michio Kaku's book Hyperspace. I read it many years ago, and don't recall much from it.

12-10-2003, 11:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
stingc Psycho Location: PA	I agree that Black Holes and Time Warps is an excellent book. Besides the physics, it has a lot of discussion of the personal lives of the scientists involved, which I enjoy, but some people don't. Thorne's book talks about classical general relativity, which is now almost 90 years old (but still not understood very well). Modern physics has been trying to go beyond this to what's called quantum gravity. All of the ideas in quantum gravity are very speculative, but if you want to see that perspective anyways, I've heard that Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin is a good book. I haven't read it myself though. edit: I think that you're referring to Michio Kaku's book Hyperspace. I read it many years ago, and don't recall much from it. Last edited by stingc; 12-10-2003 at 11:42 AM..