I bought Roger Penrose's massive tome, "The Road to Reality" in the spring of 2005, and despite my periodic efforts to conquer it, I could never get further than a couple hundred pages.
This is going to change now. I think my mistake has been trying to bite off more than I could chew all at once, so I'm going to try and break this down into more manageable pieces.
By my count, there are 288 sections of Penrose's book. I want to average reading (and blogging) about one of them a day. I'm sure some of them (i.e., the ones at the beginning) will go faster than others, but trying to comprehend a few pages a day feels like a more approachable task.
Hopefully, by the end of this whole thing, I will have managed to read Penrose's book and have understood as much as I possibly could have. If anyone ever happens to read this blog, please feel free to answer any of the countless questions I am bound to post along the way.
Just a note about me. I have always been curious about math and science, but I didn't major in either in college. The universe fascinates me and the more I think about it, the more I believe that the real purpose of life is to find out and understand as much about this system that we live in.
By all observations, Roger Penrose's book is the most complete account of the myriad mathematics and physics that make up our universe. It is also the heaviest book I own.
Let's start.
