A review by jwolflink3
Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition by Richard Wolfson

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4.0

Excellent explainers and very effective even with little math. Much clearer explanation of the history and necessities behind the developments leading up to relativity. As an informed lay reader there were even parts of the history I hadn’t known before, not just a better organized version of what I did already know. However some of this clarity gets lost as Wolfson approaches contemporary physics. Obviously a harder task since it isn’t “solved” in the way older physics has been but I felt like there was a decline in the detail provided about experiments and the stakes of how to interpret them.