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Postby GrassMaster » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:05 pm

Hi, Ive been lurking around this forum for a bit and finally decided to register. Ive become fascinated with the topics here and although my knowledge of the subject is limited at best (I just graduated high school), I would like to learn more.

Does anyone recommend any books on the topic of either the fourth dimension or basic relativity that would be suitable for someone like me to understand? Hopefully Ill be able to understand your discussions better after a bit of reading :)

Thanks for the help.
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Postby Nick » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:18 am

Flatland is good... somewhere on the site, there is a link to books that are recommended for this sort of thing.
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Postby Keiji » Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:14 am

Moved to Q&A.
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Postby PWrong » Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:58 am

If you're looking for books about physics, I can recommend "the elegent universe" or "fabric of the cosmos" by Brian Greene. They both have great introductions to relativity and quantum physics, without any maths in them. There aren't many books specifically about 4D space, although Flatterland is a good book about spaces in general.

A lot of the topics here were invented by alkaline and the members of the forum, so you won't find many books on them.
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Postby GrassMaster » Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:37 am

Thanks, I went to the library and picked up two books: Euclid's Window which talks about the history of geometry and daps on the concept of 4d and Hyperspace by Michio Kaku. They seemed appropriate material, anyone thats read them feel its worth the read?

Ill check out some of those other books mentioned as well. Gonna have lots to read this summer :)
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Postby Nick » Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:56 am

Thanks, I went to the library and picked up two books


What's the second book?
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Postby PWrong » Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:26 pm

What's the second book?

Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
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Postby houserichichi » Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:44 pm

My intro special relativity book was Spacetime Physics by Taylor and Wheeler (part of the Taylor, Wheeler, Thorne team that wrote the bible of general relativity, Gravitation). It's not very involved and the math is pretty basic so go give it a rent at the library if it turns up. It's softcover and blue.
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Postby pat » Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:03 pm

"The Shape of Space" by Jeffery Weeks is a great introduction to 4-th dimensional stuff.
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Postby wendy » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:50 am

One could try, eg HSM Coxeter's "Regular Polytopes" or "Regular Complex Polytopes". That's where i started from...
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Postby papernuke » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:31 pm

no, no books, but websites yes, you should go to http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/qg_ss.html and read extra dimensions, and go to http://tetraspace.alkaline.org (if you havent beeen there you suck lol jk :D)


and when u said you just graduated high, lol i just graduated into 6th grade :D
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Postby batmanmg » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:49 am

sixth grade huh... the female body should be beyond your understanding still... but 4th dimensional theorizing... piece of cake..
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Postby moonlord » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:23 pm

batmanmg wrote:sixth grade huh... the female body should be beyond your understanding still... but 4th dimensional theorizing... piece of cake..


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