The perfect theory a century of geniuses and the battle over general relativity
"At the core of Einstein's general theory of relativity are a set of equations that explain the relationship among gravity, space, and time--possibly the most perfect intellectual achievement of modern physics. For over a century, physicists have been exploring, debating, and at times negl...
| Main Author: | Ferreira, Pedro G. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- If a Person Falls Freely
- The Most Valuable Discovery
- Correct Mathematics, Abominable Physics
- Collapsing Stars
- Completely Cuckoo
- Radio Days
- Wheelerisms
- Singularities
- Unification Woes
- Seeing Gravity
- The Dark Universe
- The End of Spacetime
- A Spectacular Extrapolation
- Something Is Going to Happen.