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From: me85mda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (M D Ayton)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Stupid relativity question
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Date: 25 Jan 89 17:24:57 GMT
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Reply-To: me85mda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (M D Ayton)
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Thanks, Tim, for starting all this.

May I recommend an excellent book for the (intelligent) layman on this
subject? It is

   "A brief history of time" by Stephen W. Hawking

He is the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Oxford (I think) and the
book is very clear; giving the most lucid and intelligible explanation
of relativity and general relatvity that I have ever read - and not an
equation in sight.

Martin.