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Re: Death by Black Hole (I'm all for it!)
07/29/08 02:14 AM
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There are a good many topics in this book that I'd like to know more about. I just bought the audio book, but it will probably be several months before I get to it. Until I get time to go through the Feynman Lectures (maybe when I retire in about 15 years), I'll have to get my learning from pop titles like this.
Books like this one and Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos", or "The Elegant Universe" and Hawking's "A Briefer History of Time" and even Gamow's "Mr. Tompkins" help bring very complicated scientific concepts within the grasp of the average Joe like me. While average Joe's may not be able to do the proofs and understand things at the level of a real physicist, we don't need to. In fact, there is no physicist who understands all of it all the way. Being aware of the concepts at all is that is really important. Books like this raise awareness, spark the imagination, and open peoples minds. All of these are good things. The more people's minds are open the more they might be willing to donate to universities and programs where the real science is actually done. And that is what I call progress. 
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