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Review title: Disappointing
Product review: This is a very disappointing book because the author fails to do what he says he is going to do in chapter 1. He says that he is writing the book so people like Cameron Diaz (!) will be able to understand the equation. But even the delightful Cameron would have no real understanding of the science involved after reading this book - not even in a popular science kind of way.It's actually just a story of some of the scientists who helped us to understand the parts of Einstein's famous equation, but even this story is incomplete because he virtually ignores many of the major players. Even Galileo gets only a few words!Also, the author is not helped by his poor use of analogy. For instance, he says that as an object increases in speed its mass "swells" up. Anyone with no prior understanding of relativity would be totally confused by this comparison.If you want to understand the theory you would do better reading another book. It's not as though popular science books on the topic are rare.
