Space and time gift-wrapped

摘要

Sander Bais's Very Special Relativity is a brief overview of Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of space and time, an esoteric topic that one would presume to be directed at a narrow audience. But this book would not be out of place on a coffee table, with its handsome design, thick, coloured papers and imaginative graphics that match the high standard of its content. We expect art books, not science texts, on our coffee tables, assuming that in science it is the ideas that matter, not the visual presentation.