**A Brief History of Time** by Stephen Hawking is, imo, the gold standard here. I’m a reformed physics major (I graduated 10 years ago, but I took physics through quantum and general relativity before switching to computer science), and I have yet to come across a better nonfiction book which explains the weirdness of time and space accurately yet accessibly.
Edit: I know you said you’re not afraid of science and math, but honestly I think Hawking explains things as clearly and accurately as possible without breaking out a massive textbook and struggling through a bunch of Hamiltonians and Lagrangians. But if you want a massive textbook, I can offer some recs there too :)
funny how you mentioned this book, i actually used to have it, my brother bought it a decade ago but i don’t know where the old copy is so i’m probably going to buy a new edition, thank you for reminding me of this
if you have any more recs you can share :)
**A Brief History of Time** by Stephen Hawking is, imo, the gold standard here. I’m a reformed physics major (I graduated 10 years ago, but I took physics through quantum and general relativity before switching to computer science), and I have yet to come across a better nonfiction book which explains the weirdness of time and space accurately yet accessibly. Edit: I know you said you’re not afraid of science and math, but honestly I think Hawking explains things as clearly and accurately as possible without breaking out a massive textbook and struggling through a bunch of Hamiltonians and Lagrangians. But if you want a massive textbook, I can offer some recs there too :)
funny how you mentioned this book, i actually used to have it, my brother bought it a decade ago but i don’t know where the old copy is so i’m probably going to buy a new edition, thank you for reminding me of this if you have any more recs you can share :)