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Non-physicist here - genuine question : do you consider, say, Feynman's pop books [QED and the like], Tony Zee's, Lee Smolin's, etc to be rubbish?
by MisterOctober 8y ago
Non-physicist here - genuine question : do you consider, say, Feynman's pop books [QED and the like], Tony Zee's, Lee Smolin's, etc to be rubbish?
- ahelwer 8y agoFor pop books I've only read Brian Greene. I don't think they were helpful for learning quantum mechanics; the reader just stumbles through bewildering scenario after scenario and has forgotten them all within a week.
- Koshkin 8y agoLearning about the experiments that led to creation of quantum mechanics is helpful.
- improbable22 8y agoQED is great, I think it really gets across one way of thinking about these things. Agree with @ahelwer that Brian Greene isn't terribly useful. Have not read Zee & Smolin's popular books... but for what it's worth, Zee is a serious guy & writes great textbooks, Smolin is not.