A journey into gravity and spacetime
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A journey into gravity and spacetime
(Scientific American Library paperback, no. 31)
Scientific American Library : Distributed by W.H. Freeman, c1999
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An introduction to Einstein's geometric theory of gravity and its implications for the relationship between mass and spacetime. Arguing that gravity closely connects the world around us and the innermost workings of the universe, the book applies Einstein's theory to many different phenomena.
Table of Contents
- Great men, great ideas
- from fall to float
- interval - revelation that all of space is ours
- boomerang through the Earth
- tides - the grip of mass on spacetime
- momenergy - the grip of spacetime on mass
- the boundary of a boundary - where the action is
- from potter's wheel to space geometry
- picturing space and spacetime around a centre of mass
- stones in flight and planets in orbit
- gravity waves
- black holes
- a farewell look at gravity.
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