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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 17, 2009
Pros: Surprisingly deep physics made surprisingly simple!
Cons: There were still places where I didn't have the foggiest notion!
Summary: "Prove that a uniform body with three mutually perpendicular axes of symmetry cannot rotate stably about the axis of intermediate length" I remember it like it was yesterday. This was a question I faced on a second year classical mechanics ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 14, 2003
Pros: A truly unique read; makes you ponder for hours the possibilities about life and consciousness
Cons: Some of the more technical descriptions take a lot of concentration, but it's worth it
Summary: Although written over 20 years ago, this book is just as relevant today. Consider this: in the late 1960's Gary Zukav was fighting in the Vietnam War. He was, as he admits himself in his later book 'Soul Stories', a bloodthirsty soldier interested in ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 30, 2000
Pros: no redeeming factors
Cons: parades pseudo-science as gospel
Summary: There has been a revival of interest in the sciences among people whom you would not normally suspect of such musings, what with their being 'into' philosophy, meditation, eastern thinking, age of aquarius, new age, Gea hypothesis, you know the sort of ... read more
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Nov 25, 2005
Pros: Easy-to-grasp Language, No Equations, Excellent explanation of theories, Good References.
Cons: Too much drift towards Buddhism, Zen
Summary: For a person who hardly knows anything about Science, but is intrigued by the workings of the World and seeks answers through Science, The Dancing Wu Li Masters is a good start. Take away Mathematics and Equations from Physics and it is nothing but
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