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Suzy .. you're overloaded with reading material !!
What about the stargazing??
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Brian Greene is such an amazing presenter isn't he?! He explains things so well, especially for people (like me) just starting out trying to grasp the complexity of it all. He holds attention well.
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Well …. y'know … I'm not that fond of his presentation style (as per Elegant Universe DVD/TV Series). He may have gotten better since it was made.
The thing to note about him though, is that he is presenting highly sophisticated, purely theoretical physics content. Anyone who can do that without resorting to mathematics, and holds your attention, is a legend in my view.
'The Fabric of the Cosmos' book, is 570 pages of pure theory without one mathematical formula !!! Unbelievable !! Many thought exercises, which makes it far easier to relate to the concepts.
And this is from a guy who's the real deal .. I could post some of his papers and they are maths from the Abstract right thru to the last dot on the last page (so I don't bother).
The guy is a Rhodes Scholar, also. No slouch in the brain dept.
I think he's got a lot of respect for Ed Witten (my master). Which also makes him a legend, by default.
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And it doesn't hurt that he's easy on the eye to watch either.  .
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Blllaaahhhh !! Yuk !! I'll leave that one up to you !!
I don't mind commenting on the female theoretical physicists, though !
Cheers
PS: Greene's books win hands down when compared with Kaku's books. Kaku's one-liners in the "How the universe works" series, are definitely growing on me. His books are like comic strip material when compared with Greene's, though. (IMHO, that is). I just think they're trying to appeal to different markets, hence the different style … so they're both really OK.
Krauss is an unknown to me. I'm curious to put him under the microscope sometime.