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From: jim@nih-csl.UUCP (jim sullivan)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Stupid relativity question
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Date: 27 Jan 89 14:55:23 GMT
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In article <567@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> me85mda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (M D Ayton) writes:
>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.

	May I recommend a book I found to be better in content and
	clearity?  It is
	
		"Einstein's Universe" by Nigel Calder

	While reading Hawkings book, I was confused not by the subject
	but the style with which it was written.  Many parts were
	clear but others were down right confusing if not contradictory.
	I found myself picking up Calder's book to help explain
	just what Hawking was talking about.  Calder's book also 
	is for the layman with no equations and much less talk about God.

					Jim