A review by haramis
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time by Michio Kaku

4.0

What did I learn from this? That physics makes my head hurt. Okay, it's not quite that bad, but only being mildly mathematically-inclined, I stuck to biology and botany in school, and clearly that didn't help. In retrospect, I wish I'd been a bit braver and tried it out, so that I wasn't so at loose ends with what is clearly meant to be a book accessible to laymen. I'm so out of physics, I didn't even know that Einstein needed apologists to redefine his importance in the field of modern physics. Oops. Also, everything I know about string theory, I learned from Noein. I honestly think I would have to read this book a second time to absorb what I didn't get the first time through. Obviously all the parts that were the history of Einstein's life were straightforward enough, but I was a bit at a loss for other bits.