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It does not appear whether Einstein's readiness for the project was due to a prickly dissatisfaction with the existing popularizations of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. These have appeared in a steady stream since-to his complete bewilderment-his newspaper fame flowered in the 1920s. It is noteworthy that...
Lucid But Not Light. The Evolution of Physics does not contain a single mathematical equation or formula, but it is studded with a number of helpful diagrams. Co-author Infeld writes with lucid, straightforward simplicity, not devoid of patches of whimsey-as, for example, having shown how modern physics banished...
Some weeks ago Gossip Walter Winchell announced in his syndicated column that Einstein was writing a book on physics "which you, you and you can understand." It is doubtful whether many of Columnist Winchell's "you's" will find The Evolution of Physics light reading. The Book-of...
Evolution. In tracing the roots of modern physics, the authors found il necessary to go back to Galileo and Newton, and even to mention Aristotle. The great Greek philosopher, whose shadow dominated scholastic thought in Medieval Europe, declared that a continuous push had to be exerted on a body to...
Quanta. Having traced the evolution of physics through Relativity, the co-authors close their volume with a discussion of the Quantum Theory. Max Planck provided the first experiments and Einstein the early theory which regards energy as released and received not in continuous flow but in separate little bundles called...