Download or read book Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified written by Richard Wolfson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physicist Wolfson explores the ideas at the heart of relativity and shows how they lead to such seeming absurdities as time travel, curved space, black holes, and new meaning for the idea of past and future. He explains in a lively, conversational style the simple principles underlying Einstein's theory. 48 illustrations.