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Together with Jeff Forshaw, another physics professor at the University of Manchester, Mr. Cox sets out to "demystify . . . one of the great triumphs of the human mind," a theory that underpins our understanding of the world from neutron stars to transistors.

Making Sense of It All Richard Lea 2011

Cox and Forshaw deploy a bewildering array of one-handed timepieces, winding them, shrinking them and adding them together in an attempt to capture the behavior of the underlying probability waves.

Making Sense of It All Richard Lea 2011

But Cox and Forshaw do as much as they can to undermine the old publishing canard that equations in books don't sell.

Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw – review Alok Jha 2010

Cox and Forshaw take us through more than a century of postulation and exploration, ending with the mystery of the Higgs boson, a particle that may account for the masses of other subatomic particles.

Making Sense of It All Richard Lea 2011

Cox and Forshaw encourage the reader to imagine how a succession of bullet-like particles could build up an interference pattern—a worthwhile exercise "because it's futile, and a few hours of brain-racking should convince you that a stripy pattern is inconceivable."

Making Sense of It All Richard Lea 2011

If I'd had a science teacher who sounded as patient and friendly as Jeff Forshaw, I might have scraped through O-level biology.

Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - reviews Sue Arnold 2010

For anyone afraid of technicalities, Cox and Forshaw lead the reader by the hand through the complexity, adding in rest stops of wit and real-world examples.

Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw – review Alok Jha 2010

Cox and Forshaw use this background to rattle through concepts that sound more science-fiction than everyday: how time slows down and length contracts the closer you move to the speed of light or why one twin can age more slowly than the other if he goes on a super-fast round trip.

Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw – review Alok Jha 2010

Spacetime is a key component in the step-by-step journey that physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw take in getting to the bottom of the most famous equation in science, Einstein's E = mc2, which says that mass and energy are the same thing, and you can convert from one to the other using a constant, "c2", a number whose value is equal to the square of the speed of light.

Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw – review Alok Jha 2010

Cox and Forshaw's clocks take the general reader as far as it is possible to go.

Making Sense of It All Richard Lea 2011