Best cosmology and theoretical physics books for beginners

[pkarnett]

Hello,

I am looking for some of the best books regarding cosmology, parallel universes, time travel, dimensions, quantum mechanics, theoretical physics, etc. for a layman. I am interested in the subject and would love to learn more about it. Any advice of where to get started would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[mgb_phys]

John Gribbin "In search of the big bang" is a good maths free intro.
Simon Singh "The big bang" well written but more about the people than the physics?
Steven Weinberg "The first three minutes" is a slightly more detailed description by one of the top researchers.

 

[Himanshu]

Read "An Elegant Universe" by Brian Green. It covers topics like parallel universes, extra dimensions, sparticles, superstrings and a new discipline called String Theory.

 

[chronon]

Hello,

I am looking for some of the best books regarding cosmology, parallel universes, time travel, dimensions, quantum mechanics, theoretical physics, etc. for a layman. I am interested in the subject and would love to learn more about it. Any advice of where to get started would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I suggest you take a look at my website, in particular the book reviews, where I look at lots of books of this type.

 

[FunkyDwarf]

Shrodingers kittens and Shrodingers cat by John Gribbin --> quantumn theory

and Universe by Freedman and Kaufmann --> cosmology, some astrophysics. Not highly mathematical and well written.

 

[Chronos]

Welcome to PF, pkarnett! Why pay when you can get it for free on the internet? Try here for starters:

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm