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Physics Books for the Novice?
cornjchob asks: "I've been a Slashdot reader for quite sometime now, and I've seen alot of Physics articles posted. I've got a good understanding of alot of it, but that doesn't mean there's no room to improve. So what's some good reading material for Physics that will give you a good, solid foundation if you've missed something, and then give you some additional stuff? What about online articles or PDF's for us cheap folk? Quantum Mechanics is another subject area that--judging by alot of posts underneath the articles, at least--many of us could use some brushing up on. Any suggestions for books/articles/PDF's on that? Suggestions on anything pertinent to any of those would be great."
two additional chapters, including indepth discussions regarding the possibilities of time travel.
Hawking is a perfect example of a crackpot and/or charlatan who has managed to get his crackpot ideas accepted by a generation raised on Star-Trek physics and cheap sci-fi novels. Any physicist of reknown who gets away with talking about time travel as if it were a valid scientific pursuit, makes it on my list of notorious time travel crackpots. Any physicist of reknown who teaches that anything can move in spacetime (or that "time dilation" is a form of time travel, or that we are moving in time toward the future at the rate of one second per second) deserves to be tarred and feathered and paraded through the streets as an example to the others. Damn it! This hogwash has been around for way too long. One hundred years of this crap is about enough, in my opinion. For more information on why time does not pass and why time travel is the ultimate crackpot idea, check out the page below.
Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics
Truly a marvelous book, easy to understand, yet full of knowledge. I recommend it to almost anyone I meet.
I do too, especially if you're a Star-Trek fanatic wearing your little Ferengi outfit. Still, I've got a little gift for you. Hopefully it will wake you out of your stupor: Spacetime is changeless from the infinite past to the infinite future. Chew on that for a while.