Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

[GazOC]

I'm about half way through reading this book by Kip Thorne, it very interesting and explains the broad strokes of the ideas very well while also going into the history and drama of 20th century physics.

Recomended!

[AstroTiger]

can you tell us more?

Name of the book?

How much?

Sounds dead interesting

Al

edit, er doh, its in the title, berk that i am :-)

[OXO]

Sounds like my kinda Book Gaz  

drama of 20th century physics.

Oh yeah they were certainly many things a foot in those days quite scarey when you think about it..

James

[GazOC]

James/ Al,

The book is in the thread title, it written by Kip Thorne who was a student of a guy called John Wheeler who in turn ran the USA "A" Bomb project.

Its a running story of the physics of black hole theory from Newton (and a couple of guys had predicted them in Newtons time, believe it or not!) through Einstien (and WW2 bomb efforts) and on to Hawking etc. All the ideas are explained at you go along and there is the odd funny story or human interest angle every now and again.

It's a very easy read considering the subject matter.

Gaz

[AstroTiger]

Hi there

I have ordered if from amazon, i would send the url, but there was only one copy left :-(

Which i bought :-)

Will let you know what its like

Al