Complete Trash
McCutcheon is quite simply, completely wrong. McCutcheon's complete lack of understanding of physical phenomena is painfully apparent as one reads through this. Much of his effort is expended attacking his own false precepts of the natural world. His chapter on gravity reveals his lack of knowledge of the true difference between Newtonian and Einstein's gravity, and his attacks on Einstein's special relativity are baseless and flat-out wrong. His 'correction' to Newton's theory is downright hilarious, and his gripes with common household electronics (ie lightbulbs) are equally ridiculous. He certainly does not understand what these more advnaced ideas (warped space-time, quantum mechanics, quantum gravity) are attempting to accomplish, and why they are needed. This represents a serious disservice to the general public, and seems to be happening at a time when really great things are happening in the physical sciences. A theory is not incorrect just because every Tom, Dick and Harry can't fully understand it. Physicists spend their entire lives studying these ideas, and if they are not readily accessible to the layman, too bad! That's not to say many don't do a fantastic job of explaining their ideas (Greene, Sagan, Hawking, Kaku). I've been studying physics for 8 years now, and the common 'myths' 'debunked' in this book were assigned as homework problems in my freshman physics class. If you are curious about what's happening in modern physics, almost any other book will provide a better service.