Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time: Great Discoveries

If you have any interest whatsoever in physics or Einstein, you should stop reading this review and buy this book immediately.I learned so much from reading this book, that I ended up buying more books on physics, as well as Richard Feynman's lectures (Six Easy Pieces) and then even starting taking online physics courses.From reading this book, I discovered that I have a true affinity for physics and science that I never even realized. Michio Kaku writes this book with the same easy style as he's written his other books. He dumbs it down for you, but he never talks down to you. The information is delivered in a manner where the reader can actually absorb what's being said. Otherwise, you'd have a bunch of mumbo-jumbo about quanta, atoms and neutrons that would bore you tears by the time you reached the third page. This book is written like an really smart, laid-back guy is sitting across from you at a coffee shop just chatting away to you about what he knows of Einstein and physics. This no text book!Mr. Kaku doesn't bombard you with the terminology. Instead, when he introduces the terminology, theories or explanations to you he first explains the theory and then gives you a real-world comparison, enabling the reader to actually envision what's being explained. The explanation of the bending of space and time in a text book would warp some brain cells, right? Instant migraine. Not here! Mr. Kaku delivers the basic premise in such a manner with a real-world explanation, enabling the reader to not only "get it," but also to encourage and provoke the reader to want to know more.I could sit here all day and write about what I've learned about the Theory of Relativity and the Theory of Special Relativity and String Theory (or M Theory), but why not buy the book and read about it for yourself? You're going to love Schroedinger's Cat!Trust me here, folks. It's flipping AMAZING.This book is great for adults and teenagers alike.

This book is not as much a biography as it is a study of the foundations of relativity and quantum mechanics. It frames the material in the lives and work of the great founding physicists - Einstein, Bohr, Schrodenger, Bell, Feynman, etc. By providing the timing and context of their discoveries, we can achieve a greater understanding of how they came about. Kaku is a theoretical physicist who has authored graduate-level college textbooks in advanced string theory, but this book is an easy and enjoyable read for a general audience.The book is not only historical - it discusses the impact of these discoveries on modern science, and looks ahead to what they might lead to. For example, the book discusses at length Einstein's elusive "theory of everything" and how modern string theory may provide the answer.Highly recommended to anyone who is curious about physics.

For me the book was difficult. I'm unlearned at Physics, Math, and Astronomy. So many parts of the book were difficult to understand. However it induced in me a desire to learn. Einstein was much more fascinating than I knew and now I want to know more. I'd recommend it but I think you'll get more out of it if you have a basic understanding of underlying principles.

Since some years ago I've been trying to find a Michio Kaku's book, I saw him in some tv and dvd documetaries and I was curious about his work. I bought this book and Parallel Worlds but I begun with this one. I read this book in less than a week, it's so interesting that I spent every time I had free time and even before going to bed. reading it.The central idea behind this book is Einstein's life and accomplishments, since his early years in school to his death. It begins with a short chapter which relates how the nature and physics was before Einstein's and how many of this ideas were usefull for his understand of the world. The book goes through his childhood, adolescence, matureness and death but also relates others physics work which was very usefull like Grossman, Shrödinger, Plank, Isaac Newton and many others and not only explains Einsteins life, It explains every theory, like Newtonian Physic, Special Relativity, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics, String theory and M-Theory with great detail and accompanied with a simple and every day example who everyone can understand even if you are not familiarized with high level physics nor math.Finally the book closes with a summary of Einstein's legacy and how his (and others physicist work) have been very helpfull for our modern understanding of universe.If you are interested in cosmology, astronomy, physics, etc, I highly recommend you this book, I am now reading Parallel Worlds (...) from this same author and I will probably buy his other works.

Michio Kaku is a great writer, and a great insight into Einstein...his times and achievements.

As a non-physicist, I found Kaku's explanation of time dilation especially helpful. He asks us to imagine two cops on motorcycles, one sitting still, the other chasing a beam of light. It's all imaginary, of course, but the vignette makes it clear why time must slow down for the one racing after the light beam. The author wants to introduce his readers difficult concepts, but to make them crystal clear. And he usually succeeds. I suspect Kaku, a major physicist, succeeds because he's worked so hard with these concepts himself. Moreover, he has a good sense of humor.

The author provides a very accessible insight into Einstein's thinking and the origins of his wonderful ideas, showing him as a unique but still very human being.

Sehr leicht zu lesen, unterhaltsam und informativ. Nicht umsonst ein Bestseller.

Great book. A very committed and fair biography of one of the greatest minds of our time, written by another great mind.

El libro se lee en un plis plas, es super ameno, explica muchos conceptos científicos de una manera comprensible para el gran público y el recorrido biográfico que el autor, físico de renombre también, realiza de Einstein te engancha y envuelve de expectación a lo largo del libro. No puedes dejar de leerlo si te interesa alguien como Einstein.