New Naples FL friend, Dr. Kerson Huang, is seeing to my basic education in physics. Kerson is Emeritus Professor of Physics at MIT and way overqualified for the task. But among his many publications, he authored a readable, basic review of the history, people and ideas of physics: Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields, which is just what I needed. If like me, you have read through some of Stephen Hawking's well-illustrated books for common consumption (e.g., A Short History of Time and The Theory of Everything), and felt you really needed a better grounding in the basics, this might be just the right background book for you, too.
A native of China, but a long-time resident of the US, Kerson is another versatile and multi-talented academic. As a young man, he rendered the first translation of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat into Chinese--a translation still used in China today--and also authored an authoritative version of the I Ching, based on its original, pre-Confucian historical form. All Kerson's many textbooks and the I Ching are available through Amazon.com.
(It's okay to pitch good stuff from good people, isn't it?)
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