A review by connie_leavitt_rees
Einstein's Universe by Nigel Calder

4.0

I decided to read this book because it is one that my husband read as a teenager, and it really influenced his understanding of physics. I quite enjoyed reading this. It was almost like having a conversation with my husband—a lot of the explanations were familiar to me. This book is old, but I still found it to be a useful explanation of Relativity. I’m not going to pretend that some of it still didn’t go over my head, because it did, but I gained some great understanding of the idea of Einstein’s Universe as described in his theories. I even had a couple of light bulb moments. I think Nigel Calder did a great job explaining Relativity, and I can see why this was such an influence on my husband’s understanding. There is definitely more to the story than what is in this dated work, but I think this still remains relevant as a non-mathematical explanation of Relativity and an enumeration of early experiments testing the theory.