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The ABC of Relativity
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Russell's 1925 attempt to explain Einstein's theories of relativity to a completely non-technical reader. Avoids equations entirely and uses vivid analogies — trains, elevators, the geometry of space-time — to make the revolutionary physics accessible. One of the most successful popularizations of relativity ever written.
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