Books Brian Cox, Why does E=mc2

[Chronictank]

Brian Cox the guy who did the horizon show about creating an artificial sun on earth has released a book about string theory. Ordered it this morning so will see how it goes, personally i love his way of explaining things

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YouTube - Why does E=mc2 by Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw

 

[Zede]

aye might just purrchase that myself

 

[Lucius]

I am tempted but I would know most of the things he explained in there anyway. My fear is that the content in the book is seriously dumbed down - therefore leaving out all proper interesting things .

 

[Imgormiel]

Liked his BBC programs alot. Would prefer to see more of those than read something like that. I don't read that much unless it's something worthwhile ie learning stuff. Not that this wouldn't teach me something, it just doesn't appeal to me in this format.

 

[Lamp]

I've already got a book on E=MC2 (by David Bodanis) but its not exactly a gripping page-turner.

What I'm more interested in is something that gives serious treatment (but without resorting to 100 pages of esoteric forumlae) to what happens at the singularity of a black hole. We're waiting for a unified theory of gravity which unites general relativity and quantum theory , but until then all theoretical physicists can do is play around with complex stuff like "11-dimensional M-theory".

CERN may reveal some interesting things.

 

[Cadelin]

What I'm more interested in is something that gives serious treatment (but without resorting to 100 pages of esoteric forumlae) to what happens at the singularity of a black hole. We're waiting for a unified theory of gravity which unites general relativity and quantum theory , but until then all theoretical physicists can do is play around with complex stuff like "11-dimensional M-theory".

A serious treatment but without the formulas? Also our only observations of black holes have been through their gravitational effect on things around them, we know absolutely nothing about what goes on inside the Schwarzschild radius. We have no idea what the laws of physics are at these high energies.

There is plenty of interesting things going on but nobody will write a book for the general public about something that could be disproved in the next few years. That's why you get rubbish about string theory because it can't be proved or disproved.

Some fantastic books could be written about CP/CPT violation, the Higgs, Super Symmetry, dark matter, neutrinos to name just a few but the fields are moving so fast it could be wrong before a publisher was found.