Coffee with EinsteinOne of the most gifted scientists who ever lived, Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein revealed to us the elasticity of space and time and altered our entire conception of the universe. Over an imaginary coffee with top NASA physicist Carlos Calle, Einstein tells all about his revolutionary work on relativity, quest for a grand unifying theory of the cosmos, anxieties about the nuclear bomb he helped unleash, and personal matters too.
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Foreword by Sir Roger Penrose | 6 |
Now Lets Start Talking | 31 |
The Theory of Relativity | 50 |
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