Ich fand das Buch richtig gut! Hab viel gelernt und auch viel markiert :D (Vielleicht ein bisschen zu viel) :D Naja jedenfalls geht es um Einstein und Newton die sich miteinander unterhalten und sich gegenseitig Tipps und Erklärungen geben! Es ist nicht für Jedermann aber ich mochte es sehr :)
Imagine a meeting involving Sir Issac Newton, Albert Einstein and a modern day physicist.. An out of the world experience indeed. Did I understand the book completely? No way.. Did I enjoy it? Absolutely...
I chose this book for a college science course I am teaching because I thought the theme of dialog between great scientists was interesting. Unfortunately Newton and Einstein end up being one-dimensional caricatures of the real historical persons who describe the physics at hand in simplistic, sometimes inaccurate, and often ahistorical ways. I was hoping for a meaningful dialog between historical personalities, but instead found a cliched and oversimplified story with little connection to the depth of the developing thought on the nature of physical reality.
Fascinating discussion between a fictitious scientist named Haller, Albert Einstein, and Isaac Newton, all miraculously alive contemporaneously, explaining to the average reader the Theory of Relativity, among other things. Very engaging. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on fission and fusion as possible sources of energy over the next few decades.