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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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Subject: Re: Stupid relativity question
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Date: 30 Jan 89 14:56:51 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)

Sorry, the other place.  the Lucasian chair is at Cambridge. Previous
holders of this position include Sir Isaac Newton and Paul Dirac.