Yeah. I had wondered if Linda Blair would be messed up from doing the movie(s).

I was at a friend's house when I was around 10 and was really scared watching "The Exorcist" on TV.

Thanks. There are quite a few of these series, such as evolution and the Standard Model.

I'm quite familiar with the Standard Model of particle physics and it's relation to our understanding of cosmology.

Here's part 1 of 5 of one of my favorite video productions\introductions to both subjects:

I haven't read that layman book (yet). But Murray Gell-Mann is a very famous physicist and Amazon gives the book a favorable rating.

http://www.amazon.com/Quark-Jaguar-Adve ... 0716727250

You may know that the LHC at CERN, a particle accelerator\collider, hopes to detect particles beyond the "Standard Model" of particle physics, like the Higgs boson and "dark matter". The more energy produced in a smaller area produces higher energy particles consisting of "h...

Thanks Chris. I have been looking around. It looks like quite a collection of smart book readers here on the forum.

Hi Jim... I am new on here too. When you figure out how to use this site let me know OK! LOL -Maria :) Well, many of the controls are similar with other forums I've participated in. I even started a BookTalk.org blog: http://www.booktalk.org/blogs/tampamathtutor , well, with a great friend's help t...

Thanks for the welcome froglipz, mariaforyounow and NY152! I have a couple shelves of layman books, mainly dealing with quantum mechanics, relativity, cosmology, particle physics, and a few on genetics and evolution. Stuff like In Search of Schrödinger's Cat , Interactions , and any of Stephen Hawki...

Hello people. I'm Jim and I'm new here. Just looking around right now.

I'm an avid reader of science and math books and I see you guys read that sort of stuff regularly here.