Ha, yeah... I mean, yes, it's funny because it's so ridiculous, but it's also kind of frustrating, or am I alone in this?
How can you write a text on contemporary physics for a broad lay audience and say something like Kaku's description of the SM? It's a total contempt for important, workmanlike science that actually advances our understanding of the world but isn't attractive mathematically. It's a desperate and pathetic attempt to invent the next paradigm shift before we have actual empirical results to underpin it, to wish the universe they want into existence.
Based on my understanding of where your interests lie, I think you'll probably find the math in the Han book a bit boring and simple, but I think you'll enjoy the book anyway. It's so hard to find books like that. The chapter on transistors was my favorite.
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Date: 2011-01-23 04:55 am (UTC)How can you write a text on contemporary physics for a broad lay audience and say something like Kaku's description of the SM? It's a total contempt for important, workmanlike science that actually advances our understanding of the world but isn't attractive mathematically. It's a desperate and pathetic attempt to invent the next paradigm shift before we have actual empirical results to underpin it, to wish the universe they want into existence.
Based on my understanding of where your interests lie, I think you'll probably find the math in the Han book a bit boring and simple, but I think you'll enjoy the book anyway. It's so hard to find books like that. The chapter on transistors was my favorite.