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Question about books, may be a stupid one..

0000879k · 2012-07-12 22:10:15

Hi all, I bought ''Why does E = MC2 and why should we care?'' By Brian Cox and ''A brief history of time'' by Stephen Hawking and was wondering which I should read first or does it matter? I was thinking the Brian Cox one as I heard that Stephen Hawking uses e=mc2 in his book? :confused:

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0000879k

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Hi all, I bought ''Why does E = MC2 and why should we care?'' By Brian Cox and ''A brief history of time'' by Stephen Hawking and was wondering which I should read first or does it matter? I was thinking the Brian Cox one as I heard that Stephen Hawking uses e=mc2 in his book?

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#2 13-07-2012 3:23pm
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Cox's book is aimed at a much more general readership. Try it first. Hawking's book is difficult, but worthwhile if you can manage it.

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#3 13-07-2012 4:47pm
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0000879k wrote: »

Hi all, I bought ''Why does E = MC2 and why should we care?'' By Brian Cox and ''A brief history of time'' by Stephen Hawking and was wondering which I should read first or does it matter? I was thinking the Brian Cox one as I heard that Stephen Hawking uses e=mc2 in his book?

I enjoyed the former recently, plugged through the latter years ago. Might revisit, now that I've read a lot more stuff in between!

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