Long Hard Journey: The Story of Relativity

Long Hard Journey begins in ancient Greece where science originated 2000 years ago. From the advances made in physics since the days of philosopher/scientists like Pythagoras and Aristotle, key breakthroughs are laid out--these shed a very bright light on the postulates and laws of Einstein"s theory of relativity. The scientific psyche is on display too, with the reader seeing the biting vindictiveness of a Sir Isaac Newton, the despair of the "reluctant revolutionary" Max Planck, and the u...