That was a great book. Not only did it do a great job of explaining Strings, it gave a good history of relativity and quantum mechanics (that stuff still scares me). It made physics really exciting. Also, you dont really need any background in physics at all. I only had a 1/2 year of high school Chemistry, which is my first real science class, when I read it. Physics next year is gonna be soo boring when I have to learn about Newtonian physics, which I already know is wrong. Well...not 'wrong' per se, more like 'not perfectly accurate all the time', but you know what I mean.
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That was a great book. Not only did it do a great job of explaining Strings, it gave a good history of relativity and quantum mechanics (that stuff still scares me). It made physics really exciting. Also, you dont really need any background in physics at all. I only had a 1/2 year of high school Chemistry, which is my first real science class, when I read it. Physics next year is gonna be soo boring when I have to learn about Newtonian physics, which I already know is wrong. Well...not 'wrong' per se, more like 'not perfectly accurate all the time', but you know what I mean.