Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2024-03-28
Books mentioned on William Shatner Has Questions for Neil deGrasse Tyson
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Harlan Ellison's The city on the edge of forever (teleplay)
Discussed“So if memory serves, that was The City on the Edge of Forever, which was a famous story by Harlan Ellison, a famous science fiction writer.”
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Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie by Albert Einstein is a foundational scientific text in which the physicist explains his theories of relativity in a manner intended to be accessible to readers with a general scientific education.
Discussed“So, according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, there is recent thinking that in the vacuum of space where there are what we call virtual particles that pop in and out of existence.”
