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Wu-Li Masters
I started on this book called 'The Dancing Wu-Li Masters' by Gary Zukav. Its not a martial art book!!! It deals with the explanation of Quantum Theory and Relativity from a layman's perspective, which is what I wanted. Not having enough background in physics (inspite of being an engineer), I hope this book will give me a decent overview of the concepts in modern physics. Concepts which are considered revolutionary and which came after a long gap since the publication of Newtonian (also referred to as Classical Physics)Physics. I havent yet gone beyong the preface and the introduction, but there seems to be something promising about this book. Te one thing which really struck me about what the author refers to as the difference between a scientist and a technician. A technician is someone who works on somethings which are supposed to be look into as governed by the common perceptions in the scientific community at that time. While a scientist explores the unknown. He is giving an example of how Bohr provided a model of the Hydrogen atom to explain the emission and absorbtion spectra of hydrogen and other elements. There was interesting quote from Einstein (which I cannot remember verbatim) but it said something like this "Science is like being able to look at a watch with all its dials and stuff without being able to open it up and see the mechanism. The skill lies in providing a model of its internal functioning which matches observations in the past, present and the future". I think Einstein put it in a more clear manner ( will try to get the exact one in my next blog). Anyway am excited to read the book.