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Zimbler0   6TH POPE   02 Dec 2023
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By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Fri, 01 Dec 23 4:44 PM
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I'm about a third of the way through 'Relativity' by Albert Einstein, but while I'm understanding what he's saying at a cursory level, at least half sails way over my head. As I told my book club buddy, "I think you and I should read it eight or nine times before we meet for a discussion!"

The fact is, I don't know what a Lorentz Transformation is. Statements such as "This theory was of a purely electro-dynamical nature, and was obtained by the use of particular hypotheses as to the electromagnetic structure of matter" abound and leave me tugging at my hair.

So I'll finish the book and then put it onto my reading list to be read again... and again... and again. Eventually, if I've done the required background work, I'll get it.

For the bookclub, the next book I'll be reading is called 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer' by Siddhartha Mukherjee. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013 and was the subject of a Ken Burns documentary.




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