Relativity visualized by lewis carroll epstein biography

There Is Only One Speed in Spacetime: A review of Relativity Visualized by Lewis Carroll Epstein
1981, Insight Press, San Francisco, CA, 227 pages

Although everyone knows about relativity theory, very few understand its far-reaching implications.

No book on relativity is as good as this one for explaining those implications – “The gold nugget of relativity books” according to author John Gribben. In just over 200 pages of spell-binding examples and descriptions, teacher Lewis Carroll Epstein lays before us the truths of relativity theory in both its special and general forms, without complex mathematics or difficult scientific concepts, and in often humorous and witty ways.

Profusely illustrated, loaded with examples, with many useful questions-answers, all written in easy-to-read double columns per page, Epstein’s book exposes our everyday assumptions about time, space, matter, and energy, and drives home the larger, stranger truths of the