Einstein Relatively Simple: Our Universe Revealed In Everyday Language

Einstein Relatively Simple: Our Universe Revealed In Everyday Language

by Ira Mark Egdall
Einstein Relatively Simple: Our Universe Revealed In Everyday Language

Einstein Relatively Simple: Our Universe Revealed In Everyday Language

by Ira Mark Egdall

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Overview

'Outstanding Academic Title for 2014' by CHOICEEinstein Relatively Simple brings together for the first time an exceptionally clear explanation of both special and general relativity. It is for people who always wanted to understand Einstein's ideas but never thought they could.Told with humor, enthusiasm, and rare clarity, this entertaining book reveals how a former high school drop-out revolutionized our understanding of space and time. From E=mc2 and everyday time travel to black holes and the big bang, Einstein Relatively Simple takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on a mind-boggling journey through the depths of Einstein's universe. Along the way, we track Einstein through the perils and triumphs of his life — follow his thinking, his logic, and his insights — and chronicle the audacity, imagination, and sheer genius of the man recognized as the greatest scientist of the modern era.In Part I on special relativity we learn how time slows and space shrinks with motion, and how mass and energy are equivalent. Part II on general relativity reveals a cosmos where black holes trap light and stop time, where wormholes form gravitational time machines, where space itself is continually expanding, and where some 13.7 billion years ago our universe was born in the ultimate cosmic event — the Big Bang.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789814525596
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 03/21/2014
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 677,214
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Special Relativity: The Newton—Maxwell Conflict; Einstein's Light and Relativity Postulates; How Time Slows and Space Shrinks with Motion; Simultaneity; The Equivalence of Mass and Energy Per E=mc2; The Unification of Space and Time in the Spacetime Interval; The Twins Paradox; General Relativity: The Equivalence Principle; Gravitational Time Dilation; Ehrenfest's Paradox; The Warping of Time and Space; Time Travel; Local and Global Gravity; Spacetime Curvature; The Einstein Equation; Black Holes; Gravitational Lensing; Gravity Waves; Frame Dragging; Wormholes; The Expansion of the Universe; The Big Bang; Cosmic Inflation; Dark Matter; Dark Energy; The Future of the Universe.
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