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I had a great high school physics teacher. His analogies and jokes always made the underlying concepts vivid and enhanced my understanding (though, when it can time to solve problems on my own, I invariably ended up dividing by zero or some other way getting things wrong, which is probably why I read popular science books, and don't work in a lab somewhere).
This book is like that great high school physics teacher. I think the chapters explicating relativity and quantum mechanics made those ideas much, much more clear to me than others I have read. They are almost worth publishing on their own.
That said, the actual accounts of string theory were much tougher to follow, and much less clearly applied to the problem they are presented as a solution to - The unification of relativity and quantum mechanics.
Overall though, really a well-written, elucidating work of popular science.
This book is like that great high school physics teacher. I think the chapters explicating relativity and quantum mechanics made those ideas much, much more clear to me than others I have read. They are almost worth publishing on their own.
That said, the actual accounts of string theory were much tougher to follow, and much less clearly applied to the problem they are presented as a solution to - The unification of relativity and quantum mechanics.
Overall though, really a well-written, elucidating work of popular science.