Space-time for Absolute beginners

I’ve just finished reading this book and found it an excellent introduction to what initially seemed like a very daunting subject. Tony gently introduces ideas and theories to the reader and I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I felt that I was beginning to understand the subject matter. It’s a relatively short book but it’s a very entertaining read and I would highly recommend this book as a starting point if this is a subject you wish to learn more about. Having read this I know intend to see if I can crack A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkins.

Time, Space and Gravity are all apparently related to each other and I suspect many other people struggle to get my head around it all. This book goes a long way towards helping but there are some aspects of the explanations that could do with extra work and illustration. For example, yes I get that gravity is an illusion caused by the warping of space time but I wish there was more time explaining why.

A good and well written book although I would say it is not for absolute beginners. Some of the concepts such as speed of space and time are not particularly easy to understand and after reading the book they are still not easy to understand.

It does what it says on the tin!