Hi. My 13 year old niece loves science, but doesn't find her current teacher engaging. She hasn't been exposed to anything beyond the typical elementary and middle school science curriculum. I was just visiting her and briefly mentioned some ideas related to the passage of time being relative depending on your reference frame from Einstein's special relativity theory, and she was fascinated.
Can anyone recommend a good book explaining special relativity that an intelligent 13 year old would like?
by zonotope
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You could try A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking. It was written to both update and simplify the concepts in his first book, and it’s full of awesome science facts and mind-blowing physics concepts.