Kirk Moodey reviewed Thirty Years that Shook Physics by George Gamow
Review of 'Thirty Years that Shook Physics' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Heh I misremembered this as '40 years', no, it's 'thirty years'. Good to remember the actual name for search engines or when doing book recs, yes?
Anyway, this is a great book that does not talk down to you. It mentions actual equations (fairly easy ones), which can be incredibly hard to find in a book aimed at general audiences/pleasure reading, but if those aren't to your taste there is plenty of equation-free material and it is easy enough to skim read over the equation bits. I always appreciate a book that doesn't assume the reader is a moron but doesn't take 10 pages to get to the damn point or swim in highly technical language either, and because of this if you have read other popular physics books this one will almost certainly have different material for you to enjoy. It has a bit about de Broglie waves as …
Heh I misremembered this as '40 years', no, it's 'thirty years'. Good to remember the actual name for search engines or when doing book recs, yes?
Anyway, this is a great book that does not talk down to you. It mentions actual equations (fairly easy ones), which can be incredibly hard to find in a book aimed at general audiences/pleasure reading, but if those aren't to your taste there is plenty of equation-free material and it is easy enough to skim read over the equation bits. I always appreciate a book that doesn't assume the reader is a moron but doesn't take 10 pages to get to the damn point or swim in highly technical language either, and because of this if you have read other popular physics books this one will almost certainly have different material for you to enjoy. It has a bit about de Broglie waves as a precursor to Schrodinger's waves that I have yet to see anywhere else.
