Though I’ve been busy with a number of physics and writing tasks, I’ve been beefing up the “Reader Resources” section of this website, devoted to extending the experience of readers of my book. [BTW, the audiobook is due out at the end of September.]
The book has many endnotes (available separately here, in case [like me] you hate paging back and forth between the text and the endnotes, and would like to have the endnotes more easily available on a separate screen.) A number of these endnotes have asterisks, and for those endnotes I promised to provide more information here on this website. Well, that information is going up, step by step.
For example:
In Chapters 1-3, I’ve added information to endnotes that cover a wide range of topics, some historical, some about basic physics, and some on quite advanced subjects (such as how to precisely define the relativity principle [note 1 of chapter 2] and on the cosmic microwave background interplays with the relativity principle [note 1 of chapter 3]).
If any of these topics interest you, click on the relevant chapter heading to go to the webpage that has the added information; or go to the Reader Resources page that has all the chapters. Again, comments are welcome!
- Chapter 1 Overture 1
- Note 2: On Einstein Quotations
- Part I: Motion
- Note 2: How to Measure Earth’s Shape and Size
- Chapter 2 Relativity: The Greatest Illusion 15
- Chapter 3 Coasting: Easier Than It Appears 29
- Note 1: Relativity and the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Note 3: The Sun and the Earth
. I’m hoping that readers of this blog and of the book will enjoy this new material, and will also let me know if they have questions, corrections, or suggestions as to how I could improve the material further.
2 Responses
I also hate paging back and forth between endnotes. Any reason you didn’t use footnotes instead? I find they make the reading experience much more pleasant.
The publisher makes that decision, unfortunately…