Great book, great site!

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Jordan812 Posts

October 11 2008 06:06 GMT

In a outcome of me trying to connect with a man I consider my grandpa, he was able to recommend a book to me. Seeing as how I am going down the medicine route, and he had went physics, mathematics seem to be the barrier for how I was going to be able to learn some of his subject. As I said previously, he recommended a book that is brilliant, in that it can explain complex ideas of cosmology and particle physics without too much math.

The book is The Cosmic Landscape by Leonard Susskind.
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Usually I have to trudge along informational books, but the author made the subject really enjoyable. Apart from not only enjoying the book, it also included a link to a brilliant site, that the author had written an article to.

The site is http://www.edge.org

With all the campaigning and trash that's been splashed around digg.com, I now have a new source for scientific breakthroughs and hypotheses.

Just thought I'd like to share.

EDIT: The book is amazing and I recommend it for everyone. One of the things my grandfather told me to stay away from was the section on string-theory, which is located towards the end of the book. The rest of the book focuses on common held beliefs and how they were able to reach the conclusions.

Motiva

United States1774 Posts

October 11 2008 06:55 GMT

Yea Leonard Susskind is a hell of scientist... one of the fathers of modern string theory.

and yea, edge.org is the shit too, been going there for some time now. I strongly agree w/ everything you say

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