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"Pentcho Valev" <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:f01d260a-49b7-43a0-b1ad-85d5b1b590f7@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> http://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Curved-Spacetime-without-relativity/dp/0955706807
> Relativity in Curved Spacetime: Life without special relativity
> by Eric Baird (Author)
> "Relativity theory has become one of the icons of Twentieth Century
> science. It's reckoned to be a difficult subject, taught as a layered
> series of increasingly difficult mathematics and increasingly abstract
> concepts. We're told that relativity theory is supposed to be this
> complicated and counter-intuitive. But how much of this historical
> complexity is really necessary? Can we bypass the interpretations and
> paradoxes and pseudoparadoxes of Einstein's special theory and jump
> directly to a deeper and more intuitive description of reality? What
> if curvature is a fundamental part of physics, and a final theory of
> relativity shouldn't reduce to Einstein's "flat" 1905 theory //on
> principle//? "Relativity..." takes us on a whistlestop tour of
> Twentieth Century physics - from black holes, quantum mechanics,
> wormholes and the Big Bang to the workings of the human mind, and
> asks: what would physics look like without special relativity?"

Evolution in Selecting Nature: Life without Evolution
by Beric Aird (Author)
"Evolution theory has become one of the icons of Nineteenth Century
science. It's reckoned to be a difficult subject, taught as a layered
series of increasingly difficult common sense and increasingly abstract
concepts. We're told that Evolution theory is supposed to be this
complicated and counter-intuitive. But how much of this historical
complexity is really necessary? Can we bypass the interpretations and
paradoxes and pseudoparadoxes of Darwin's evolution theory and jump
directly to a deeper and more intuitive description of reality? What
if selection is a fundamental part of biology, and a final theory of
Evolution shouldn't reduce to Darwin's "flat" 1859 theory //on
principle//? "Evolution..." takes us on a whistlestop tour of
Nineteenth Century biology - from black birds, quacking geese,
hole worms and the Big Elephant to the workings of the human mind, and
asks: what would biology look like without Evolution?"

Dirk Vdm