The book shown here is about to go to press, but is on hold for a few days because the publishers have decided they don’t like the subtitle (An Invitation to the theory of relativity for anyone who is now or has ever been a bright high school student). I have the final call on this, but I’d like to make the publishers happy, partly because they probably know more than I do about how to sell books.

Three questions:

Question 1: Do you like the existing subtitle?

Question 2: The publisher has suggested truncating the subtitle to An invitation to the theory of relativity for anyone, which strikes me as dreadful. Do you agree?

Question 3: Do you have a potentially better idea?