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   You better had read a business administration book.   
      
   Ross Finlayson schrieb:   
   > On 02/24/2026 09:26 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:   
   >> john larkin  wrote or quoted:   
   >>> He sounds interesting, so I just ordered one of his books.   
   >>   
   >>    Well, if you read that book, you also should read one book   
   >>    about how the Higgs boson and the standard model became what   
   >>    they are today, like, maybe: "The Particle at the End of the   
   >>    Universe" by Sean Carroll.   
   >>   
   >>    Leon Lederman wrote a book about the Higgs boson, which book   
   >>    he called "The Goddamn Particle". But his publisher changed   
   >>    the title into "The God Particle".   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > That Kevin Brown's "Reflections on Relativity" e-book is   
   > really a pretty great account.   
   >   
   >   
   > When we were kids we read "A Brief History of Time" and   
   > then about mostly "Goedel, Escher, Bach". Asimov has   
   > some good accounts in his non-fiction as popularizations.   
   > Reading the likes of Gribbin and Hawking and Kaku and   
   > Feynman and Greene and Tyson and Stewart and Krauss   
   > and Davies sometimes and Barrow and other sorts,   
   > "popularizers", of physics, sort of demands both   
   > reading them and understanding that personal views   
   > of science are as of through a lens.   
   >   
   > One time I picked up one of those Rovelli monographs   
   > and put it down in about five seconds. It's like that   
   > one guy with "there is no time" and it's like "get out   
   > of here". The "mathematical universe hypothesis" bit was   
   > good until it got into "... and we're living in a simulation"   
   > and it's like get out of here. That said then something like   
   > Allan Franklin's was sort of good, then something like Earman,   
   > Stachel, and Wald, those are pretty good reading.   
   > I got a lot out of reading Davies.   
   >   
   > Probably you should read "Brief History of Time"   
   > as a sort of historical artifact before some   
   > latest talking-head off the pulp-mill. They'll   
   > all have read it. It's about the only science   
   > popularization that was ever really a "best-seller".   
   >   
   > The "The Dictionary of the History of Science", or the   
   > old one, is pretty great. The Wikipedia these days is   
   > actually pretty great, though it's mostly a sort of   
   > transcription of the linear curriculum, editors are   
   > often slipping in qualifications and mentions that   
   > would otherwise leave it closed and in a wider account wrong.   
   >   
   >   
   > Of course, the beginning of the "The Handbook of Chemistry   
   > and Physics" is tons of text before the thousand page table.   
   > Something like the "Physics Formulary" that was floating around   
   > is considered a great sort of note-card.   
   >   
   > Video essays really can't get across the real textual import   
   > of information as it is, though, about conference proceedings   
   > and the like, or concerted developments, it's nice to have   
   > an instructor who does more than read off the Wiki.   
   >   
   >   
   > Heisenberg has a book called "Nuclear Physics", the beginning   
   > of that is pretty good, Born's "Restless Universe",   
   > I got here McKeon's "Aristotle".   
   >   
   >   
   > How about "Concise Encyclopedia of Atomic Energy"   
   > or "An Illustrated Dictionary of Computer Science".   
   >   
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