Hmm, I seem to have landed in a sea of intellectuals. My reading, which is voracious, is almost all crime fiction usually at £5 for 10 paperbacks from one of many charity shops. I suppose that I am now an authority of sorts on how to kill people but since few novels allow the culprit to escape, I know little of how to get away with it.
If Bob the Train wants to try to understand Schrodinger and quantum mechanics, Hawking wrote a couple of readable books on the subject. When my wife saw me reading one, she reminded me that I was at the same university as Hawking, at the same time and reading the same subject but there the similarity ends. He maybe didnt spend his university years messing with cars ( Singer la Mans for 10 shillings!!)