FISCHER@RUTGERS@sri-unix (11/24/82)
From: Ron <FISCHER at RUTGERS> Personally I think the discussion is interesting. Perhaps, however, what this list could do best is bring us up to date on recent ideas since the publication of those "good books." Some of the folks on this list must be up to date in the literature. As long as someone doesn't mind explaining, I don't mind reading. How about keeping an eye out for some interesting "spinoff" topics? (ron) -------
gwyn@BRL@sri-unix (11/24/82)
From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@BRL> One problem I have with many of the accepted "good books" is that I disagree with their interpretation of some of the more philosophical aspects of relativity theory. Since I learned the subject by studying the original works (Einstein, Eddington, Weyl, Schrodinger, etc.), I suspect that these authors may also have had some disagreements with current interpretations of their work. Of course, one has to watch out when saying things like this. I've seen some well-known books say something like "We're SURE that this theory would be acceptable to Einstein" when discussing a probabilistic (quantum) theory, in spite of Einstein's repeated emphasis that such a theory was NOT acceptable to him!