I'd recommend The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene.
It avoids using any mathematic formulae but explains a lot of complex physics though metaphors and models. Starts with the theory of relativity through super string theory.
You will probably get to a place where you bog down and don't understand it anymore but you'll understand more than you do know. Then you can go back later and read some more and get a bit further.
2007-03-20 01:43:34
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answered by Anonymous
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This has already been suggested by another answerer, but I'd recommend "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene as well. He does a phenomenal job of breaking down the complicated and often mind-boggling concepts into comprehensible terms. Or, if you're feeling lazy, you can also watch the PBS mini-series with the same name. :) You can watch it here for free.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html
2007-03-20 01:47:27
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answered by P.I. Joe 6
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> "the tremendous bang idea makes no experience" apparently, the call "vast Bang" replaced into initially coined in order to ridicule the conception, because it replaced into first proposed (by ability of Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian catholic priest). in spite of the undeniable fact that - the conception derived from the statement that the universe is increasing in all instructions. even if that's popping out to be, then it ought to were a lot smaller in some unspecified time sooner or later in the previous. This stands to reason, and that's all that the conception says. that's a really sturdy idea, yet (like a number of clinical theories) it says no longer some thing about "how the universe replaced into created": by ability of definition, that befell earlier the universe replaced into round, and technology can in undemanding words answer questions about issues in the actual universe. > "they tend to imagine that this idea is real because "God" is only a figure in historic previous it truly is too almighty and effective to be counted on" no longer real. the tremendous Bang does no longer reference God in besides: the conception may be real even if God exists or no longer. and that i don't know if you're conscious, in spite of the undeniable fact that the Catholic church accepts the tremendous Bang form. They achieve this specifically *because* there is room in the conception for some cosmic author to have sparked the tremendous Bang off. > "how you may imagine that the tremendous bang idea accured seeing as how all of this count number and power supposably all conjured at the same time in a small aspect in the technique vast area" it is a false impression of the conception. It wasn't that each thing in the universe replaced into compressed right into a tiny dot installation area. that's that the finished *universe* replaced into compressed right into a tiny dot: there replaced into no "area" for the dot to carry in because area (and time) are *section* of the universe. > "nicely I actually have a question for you...the position did each of the count number and power come from?" superb question, yet no longer one which the tremendous Bang idea (or any clinical idea) can answer. Like I defined above - technology can't answer questions about activities going on earlier or outdoors the universe. technology deals completely with activities going on *interior* the actual universe!
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answered by bulgarella 4
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I suggest " A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking.
It is a very popular book and you can find it in any bookstore. I bought mine in a railway station
2007-03-20 23:20:55
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answered by arsenick 2
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Library of congress
2007-03-20 01:49:24
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answered by Anonymous
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check it out on amazon or ebay...
or if you have a british council library access or know someone in a good engineering college, they might be able to help.
2007-03-20 01:41:45
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answered by Anonymous
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book store
2007-03-21 16:57:14
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answered by Anonymous
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try amazon.com first
2007-03-20 01:40:51
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answered by MaryAnn 3
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Libraries, under astrophysics........................
2007-03-20 01:46:10
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answered by gorglin 5
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