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...Albert Einstein stood common sense on its head when he proclaimed time to be just another dimension, like height, width and depth, and went on to declare that it can be stretched and warped like taffy. But that notion is much too mundane for Julian Barbour. According to the 64-year-old British physicist, there's no point in trying to describe time, because it simply doesn't exist. "The passage of time," he says, "is simply an illusion created by our brains...
Perhaps most confusing of all, however, are the papers that are ambiguously due “the last day of classes.” Figure that one out, Einstein...
...ever figured out precisely why Stephen Hawking's first popular book, A Brief History of Time, has been such a gigantic success, selling an astonishing 10 million copies since it was published in 1988. One possibility is that readers thought they were hearing from the greatest physicist since Einstein, and maybe the greatest of all time (Hawking himself declared that comparison "rubbish" in a TIME interview several years ago, and most of his colleagues agree with him). Another, more plausible reason is the public's fascination with a man who is utterly immobilized by the degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
Best of all, the book is liberally sprinkled with well-conceived, gorgeously rendered and frequently whimsical illustrations by Philip Dunn that explain the thornier concepts better than words ever could. There are plenty of photos too, of everything from Einstein on a bicycle to Hawking's grandson. And every few pages, the author throws in an informative block of text--a miniprofile of an important physicist, a digression on the idea of linking our brains directly to computers, a minitutorial on taking the temperature of a black hole...
...clique of head scientists by illustrating the lengthy process and mounds of evidence that changed his own view on the correctness of that Standard Model. He debunks claims that science changes with time and culture, arguing that the physics of today is the same physics of Maxwell or Einstein at the turn of the century, only more detailed. Though we have much more accurate explanations of physical phenomena, Newton’s laws of nature remain logical simplifications of them, and are indeed still the first things taught to high school students...