I'm about half way through Brian Greene's amazingly readable The Elegant Universe. It's a book for laymen describing string theory. Greene spends the first half of the book getting the readers up to speed on Einstein's special and general relativity theories and quantum mechanics before jumping into the mind-splittingly wild implications of string theory. The three hour long Nova special based on the book barely scratches the surface of this stuff--it plays like a trailer for the real movie, which is this book.

The subject matter of the book is the true nature of the Universe--the fundamental fabric of all matter and energy. How cool is that?

Greene is an exceptional writer. As I'm reading, questions arise in my head from the text and consistently, within a page of the question's appearing, I get an answer.

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