
Relativity
The Special and the General Theory
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Narrated by:
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Julian Lopez-Morillas
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By:
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory. Written in 1916, it introduced the lay audience to the remarkable perspective that had overturned theoretical physics. Einstein's genius was to express this perspective in understandable terms.
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Not for me. It talks about this book being dumbed down for the average person and some parts are but it seems to me that I must be dumber than I think because the scientific content got above my head after the 1st hour or so mainly because it was moving so fast from concept to concept. I've always been interested in relativity and have read some short explanations that made much more sense of the theory than this book did. I think you need a decent amount of knowledge about the subject to be able to follow this unless you really slow it down and replay certain parts over and over.OK
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Great
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Great Content - Not So Great Narrating
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It's flawed...
Confusing for the wrong reason.
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Einstein writes in a very engaging way
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I don’t want to discount Einstein’s work or findings — of course he was a genius and his discoveries mind-blowing. But, as a “book,” this one misses the mark a bit. Not that I’m a scientist, but I still thought I would’ve been able to understand this book better than I did. Unfortunately, it was a little too abstract and complicated for me.
As I now go back through its reviews, it would appear as though this was a one-to-one translation of one of Einstein’s essays. Sure, maybe I should have figured that out earlier, but, again, based on the description, I didn’t expect that to be the case.
Of course, none of that is to say this is a bad book; it still has some good takeaways. It just leaves something to be desired — a real, simple explanation of relativity, in everyday terms. Personally, I’ll be looking elsewhere for that.
-Brian Sachetta
Author of “Get Out of Your Head”
Was hoping for something more digestible
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Good intro to relativity
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He sets out and accomplishes explaining his theory to interested readers who, though intelligent enough to follow his logic and descriptions, are simply unfamiliar with the detailed mathematics behind his theory.
I'm glad I read this, but I recommend others read a physical copy rather than listen to an audio production for the first time to better imagine his various scenarios. This is also just the beginning of one's understanding of the topic, as so much has been written on and built upon this theory. Still good to hear this classic in Einstein's own words, however, like reading Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" with the knowledge that it irrevocably altered how we recognize our world.
Classic but not good Audiobook
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Great listen
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Another Absolute Must have
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