Tuesday, 2 October 2012
WHY DOES E=MCsquared? by Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
Yes, that's right. It is the Brian Cox who is all over BBC doing Physics programmes. He knows what he's talking about.
I really enjoyed this book. It explains a lot about Albert Einstein's famous theory of Relativity. When you travel much faster, close to the speed of light, time starts to stretch like elastic so that if someone were watching you, they would think that your seconds lasted much longer than theirs. Also distance start to shrink, and things start to get heavier
It's not a cartoon book but I found it quite readable and it explained things so well that it improved my own understanding.
So go on! You really should read it!