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A superlative, fascinating graphic account of Albert Einstein's strange world and how his legacy has been built upon since. It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the universe. Beginning near the speed of light and proceeding…

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1 author picked Introducing Relativity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Non-fiction this time (which isn’t my usual; it should say something in itself that this has made my top three) and the result of me slowly making my way through my own to-be-read pile.

I’m a science nerd; I love learning something new therefore anything that builds upon my amateur knowledgebase is likely to do it for me yet beyond that, I have to say this among those from that series I read was definitely the most engaging to me with the content it covered.

The concept of geodesics in a space-time context for instance has certainly joined my notes…

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On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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