Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (742 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1456373854 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 326 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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A physicist's view. Physics is a very interesting field to the layperson: nuclear energy, space exploration, astronomy and cosmology, just to mention a few fields. But to understand physics requires much study, so popularizations are legio, even many books are best-sellers. This book deserves to be one. A motivation for Felix Alba-Juez (FAJ) to write 325 pages of dense text in rather small font was his annoyance with the popularizing literature. "Scientists enunciate statements that sound to the layperson as mystical or incomprehensible". The purpose of this book, he states, is "to destroy the aura of mystery and incomprehensibility surrou. Accessible Einstein Mr Alba should be congratulated for doing what many have tried to do but failed. He has documented many of Einstein's most profound concepts in a way that the general public can absorb and appreciate. The book is a great achievement and a most interesting read. For years I and my colleagues have been looking for a book that clearly and succinctly explains Einstein's concepts. Mr Alba's book does just that while at the same time providing an interesting insight into the life of its author. I cannot recommend this book more highly.. "Re. "Galloping with Light"" according to Wesley Sales. When I began reading Felix Alba-Juez's book on relativity; "Galloping with Light" I thought I knew something about Einstein's equation E=MC2. After reading Dr. Alba's book I realized that my knowledge of the well known equation was wrong (completely wrong).However I'm not a scientist. An engineer perhaps (I attended Georgia Tech), but not a scientist.I met Dr. Alba while working as an intellectual property attorney for Alcoa (near Pittsburgh). Dr. Alba had developed technology for measuring particle sizes that drew Alcoa's interest. Dr. Alba demonstrated the technology at Alcoa's Technical Center and Alcoa decided thereaf
-- Matts Roos, Author of "Introduction to Cosmology"A delightful treat for the inquisitive mind. A remarkable book. -- Jesús Zamora Bonilla, Professor of Philosophy of Science (UNED, Spain). -- Raj Rajamani, Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.By reading this book anyone can comprehend Einstein's concepts and implications and, at the end, one would like to start all over. You have"galloped with light"very astutely andimaginatively! Besides being a thorough student of your subject, you are also a skilled pedagogue of it! --Adolf Gr
Knowing he has to demolish what the reader understands by time, distance, and motion, the author -using his experiences as a child, adolescent, and adult- dedicates the first half of the book to convince the reader that our intuition and common sense, as applied to those three everyday concepts, have a foundation as solid as that of a castle on the sand. The purpose of this book is to demystify and 'defolklorize' the reader; to destroy the aura of mystery and incomprehensibility surrounding Relativity Theory, unmasking and debunking the body of popular (and scientific) beliefs (mostly erroneous) which -taking advantage of the confusion between relativity and subjectivity, as well as of Einstein's popularity and prestige- have been used to validate preposterous assertions in fields like psychology, morality, spirituality, sociology, literature, art, etc.. Tired of popular science books written by renowned physicists who think you cannot comprehend what they do, so all you deserve is the illusion of understanding? If yes, this is the book for you. After all, Einstein said that Science is simply the refinement of our intuition and everyday experiences. Galloping with Light is a symbolic cavalcade that starts with the discovery of fire 1.5 million years ago; it allegorically employs the imagination of an adolescent called Einstein to explain the Theory of Relativity in non-scientific term