Dave Goldberg

The best way to read this book, unless you have a sliver of obsessive-compulsive disorder like I do, is to enjoy it from the beginning and put it down when you stop understanding it.

The amount of physics knowledge you bring into reading this book will determine how far you can read and comprehend; consequently, I was mostly flying blind after about chapter 3 or 4. But what I appreciated about Goldberg's writing is that even as I pressed on bewildered to the end (like I said, OCD), I wasn't bored. The guy is just funny. And he poses questions that make his explanations relevant for plain old non-physicist lay nerds...like, could a shrink-ray actually be a thing? Is time travel possible? What about an ansible?

Here's what I love about physicists who write books: they don't just do physics, they LOVE physics. And they want you to love it, too. Most of what they know will blow your mind, so why not give it a shot? When it gets too confusing, just go back to whatever you were doing before you tried physics.… (altro)