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De,

I think its wonderful that you are investing time in reading and especially about things like the Theory of Relativity.

Do not feel alone in not understanding many of the thoughts or statements made by Einstein. The numbers are relatively small for those that actually do know what he is saying..

I am not among them. Too much thinking at too high of a level. It would be ahuge blessing imo to be able to have comprehension and complete understanding of and hold a conversation with someone like Albert Einstein.

That Israeli physicist I had to escort and be his companion all day when he was visiting the U.S. was enough for me. Extremely polite and very nice person..
Except he had to dumb down his conversation for me to follow him...

SO hats off to ya for reading Albert Einstein..




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Re: Book Club...
By: Decomposed
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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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