Reddit mentions of Six Easy Pieces: Essentials Of Physics Explained By Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Helix Book)

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I know that by now you probably dread re-runs of the BBC documentary, since it brings a spike in your email you feel obliged to reply to. I make no such demand upon your time, only that you read what I have to say and trust that I have nothing to gain from lying to you.

"Big Bang" was coined as a derogatory term by 'steady state' advocates like Fred Hoyle—who, as a man of science, finally gave his support to Big Bang theory once it could be proven, in the principal of maximum entropy, that, in fact, all matter in the universe was created in the first picosecond of space-time. What happened before the Big Bang has nothing to do with what happened after it.

What exactly prevents the above statement of fact, or something like it, from being printed in every science book dedicated to objective understanding, regardless of the reader's religious orientation, seems rather obviously to be a matter for those who, without any reasonable basis upon which to build a counter claim, deny the basic axioms of all physical processes. To learn more on these descriptions of nature which we call "laws", you might enjoy reading an accessible and entertaining book by Nobel Prize physicist Richard Feynmen called 'Six Easy Pieces'

http://www.amazon.com/Six-Easy-Pieces-Essentials-Brilliant/dp/0201408252

I noticed that in your bedtime listening you enjoy the lectures of Kent Hovind. I wondered if you are also aware that he is currently serving time in jail for refusing to render unto Caesar what is due to Caesar?

Hovind's reasons for asserting that you are being lied to about Big Bang and Natural Selection are soundly debunked in a number of videos by a YouTube user known as AronRa, who you can find at the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=126AFB53A6F002CC

Thanks for your time—and don't worry, I don't care who Victoria Beckham thinks she is either :)

Richard Feynman's popular works are a great way to 'click' on a lot of physics. Books like 6 Easy Steps. I'm not sure what level they expect you to be at already, but Feynman was an outstanding teacher, one of the world's best in my opinion.

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials Of Physics Explained By Its Most Brilliant Teacher

by Richard Feynman

Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces are both great introductory books that explore the fascinating essentials of Physics. Feynman is a lucid and captivating science teacher.

Entirely depends on the level of comprehension you're looking for. For an advanced layman understanding there are a lot of books out there at different levels. It also depends on how much you want to learn. An overview by reading things like Six Easy Pieces or A Brief History of Time would probably help with comprehension of some later stuff. Off the top of my head I can't think of anything which would help directly with the questions you want answered but the books will be there.

On the other hand if you want to understand more completely as well as the links in drunkenwizzard's post there's this. Its by a theoretical physicist and has the aim of getting someone completely up to speed to the extent that you would in principle completely get it. If it looks like a lot its because it is, but there isn't really any way around the fact that theoretical physics is quite difficult. Either way its going to be a challenge so...good luck