I need your help alpha NT's!!!!!

[posablethumb]

Alpha NT's, can any of you suggest any physics book to me? I know that if any of my fellow alpha NT's find a book understandable, I would. Thanks. I love you all.

[machintruc]

Alpha NT's, can any of you suggest any physics book to me? I know that if any of my fellow alpha NT's find a book understandable, I would. Thanks. I love you all.

It'd be better to ask a Gamma NT or a Delta ST for that, they can be pretty good in physics.

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[posablethumb]

btw, totally off topic, but you know that scene from cast away where the tom hanks tries to open the coconut, and he grabs a stone and starts beating it, then the stone breaks and forms a shard, what type of stone is that?

[aestrivex]

try C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters.

[posablethumb]

oh, that isn't a physics book, but probably applied in it :-P, but I'll give it a try. thanks for the suggestion.

[aestrivex]

you should also try the odyssey.

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oh, i gotcha.

[reyn_til_runa]

I can't recommend straight physics books (textbooks would be best i suppose), but..

The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch

Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene

The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

are all fairly readable and informative for the non-science major interested in physics concepts.

For an excellent manic attempt at a theory of everything, try Guy Murchie's The Seven Mysteries of Life.

I suppose I might recommend Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, too, although this one would be slightly less readable than the others.

And I was elated to find the following:
David Deutsch video lectures

Ah, I thought of another good one:

Art and Physics by Leonard Schlain. this one is interesting because he tries to show how art and physics concepts are inextricably linked.

[Gilly]

Well, Reyn covered the ones I was going to recommend David Deutch is a funny guy.

[posablethumb]

tell me about it. he called walls "chemical scum"

[reyn_til_runa]

his theory on parenting is quite the trip, too.

[posablethumb]

haha, does he explain that in his book? i'm gonna have to find this theory :-D

[reyn_til_runa]

haha, does he explain that in his book? i'm gonna have to find this theory :-D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Children_Seriously

[Gilly]

haha, does he explain that in his book? i'm gonna have to find this theory :-D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Children_Seriously

Only feasible if their access to resources (ie money) was limited severely.

[Quirk Satellite Div.]

Is this the type of Physics book you're looking for in an Alpha forum? :wink:


But what type of Physics book are you looking for anyway? Physics can be considered a broad subject. Are you interested in Astrophysics? Quantum Physics? Applied Physics in Engineering? Physics Experiment Design? Optics? Mechanics? How much detail do you want to go into? Do you want to crunch through data and numbers, look at justification and evidence for physics theories, or just get a general conceptual idea?

[mikemex]

I like women's physics.

[posablethumb]

I like women's physics.

me too, but not when they are really fat.

Thanks div, and the rest of you. I was thinking just the general conceptual idea of physics. But those are interesting too, but I think I'll start with the basic before I move onto those. Thank you kindly!

[Exodus]

Alpha NT's, can any of you suggest any physics book to me? I know that if any of my fellow alpha NT's find a book understandable, I would. Thanks. I love you all.

My favorite is The End of Time. Also A Brief History of Time, or probably anything else by Stephen Hawking.