Scientific research and its consequences important socialists to understand at least in outline.
Not even David Yaffe, I suspect, would insist that everyone must fully understand why E=Mc? before they can'overthrow capitalism but we should be aware of such things. The mandarins of capitalism as well as Pol Pot would like to make obedient yahoos of us all.
It is important that we continually pry into the arcane mysteries that lurk in the physics labs. Even the most abstract theories can eventually lead to sometimes potentially lethal as with nuclear power and the profits -make capitalist's hands at best clumsy, at Einstein's theories on relativity are so far innocent of such implications but Schwartz and McGuiness physics is not what most people discuss on the bus and its language is very Very few people are in a position to appreciate the haiku-like beauty which must be contained in some scientific The first half of this book is by far the best. Here the authors set the scene Perhaps a bit mechanicaliy, how eve the abstract world of physics is related particular case the needs of the growing Germany at the turn of the century.
The gripe I would have about the cartoons is that they tend to depict foreigners as quaint eccentrics, the sort who would come up with such weird theories as Einstein's Special Theory of However, the second section I think fails. After doing quite severe damage to my brain I felt cheated. The cartoons are more of a hindrance than the help they should be and there is too much reliance in the text on mathematical equations. Other books have done this Only the Special Theory is dealt there nothing about Einstein's more exciting work - • the General Theory of Relativity and his attempt at a unified Einstein was a socialist, a very rare practising . natural scientists, but it tended to be of a rather passive variety, if only because his life's work was elsewhere. However, when he was called upon to intervene he failed.
Finally, what I now know from this