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The Curvature of Spacetime

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In general, I am not particularly fond of books that explain physical concepts in this format. Through coversations with Newton, Einstein, and a fictional physicist named Haller we are given the priviledge of learning the basics of newtonian gravity, the special and general relativity, the standard model, and cosmology.

Once I started reading the book I could not put it down. The real gems are found in passages that explain the concepts of the metric and spacetime cuvature. I also found the chapter on the origin of mass particularly interesting.

I rate this material five stars because the conversational style of Dr. Fritzsch's book worked eceptionally well in this case. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

Although this book is a general public level presentation in the fields of special and general relativity, it reads like a novel, presents many historically accurate facts about the lives of two famous individuals - Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton - and presents the material in an extraordinarily understandable manner.
A good comparison would be the popular work of Stephen Hawking, albeit with a little more math than most of Hawking's.
All in all, an enjoyable read and an easy way to increase one's comprehension of several difficult concepts.
John Brady

Was looking for a book that would explain the Theory of General Relativity, not only the basics, but without losing me on the way... Well, I found it! The approach is very interesting, it reads like a novel rather than like a textbook. The content is accessible, become challenging, and start questioning your own understanding of the world around you, to figure out what it is really about.

Would recommend this book to anyone with a scientific background, but not the mathematical ease to develop the theoretical part of this theory. It will give a good sense of the physical aspect of General relativity