Iconoclastic physics professor and artist Andrzej Dragan presents a unique feast of knowledge
on special relativity in a straightforward progressive manner that even a savvy high school
student could follow. Encompassing the derivation of Lorentz transformations to Wigner
rotations and Thomas precession from non-inertial accelerated reference frames to event
horizons curved spacetime and static black holes and from the Doppler effect to relativistic
structure of electromagnetism Dragan peels back the enigmatic layers of modern physics to
enable a deeper understanding of Einstein's groundbreaking theory. Comprehensive and elegantly
written full of insightful apparent paradoxes and riddles but without any complicated math
Dragan's unique overview takes the reader well beyond the orthodox verses of standard Special
Relativity to the bleeding edge of new-fangled superluminal apocrypha and their relation to
Quantum Theory. The book is based on a course on Special Relativity and acclaimed by students
taught by Dragan who is a leader of a research group on Relativistic Quantum Information theory
at the University of Warsaw and the National University of Singapore.
