Overview

""""The style is very clear and concise, and the treatment is authoritative throughout."""" - ChoiceRelativity remains a topic of crucial interest for scientists grappling with its implications for physics, astronomy, cosmology, and other disciplines. Laymen, too, are fascinated by relativity theory, which overturned the classical order of Newtonian physics and postulated ideas about space and time that often seem to contradict common sense.The present work is a very clear, concise, and authoritative exposition of both the special and general theories of relativity. Intended for nonscientific readers with a knowledge of high school math, the book offers illuminating coverage of such topics as the speed of light, simultaneity, time distortion of space and mass, journeys to the stars, dimension and hyperspace, the theory of general relativity, anomalies in space, and the structure and evolution of the universe.Readers with an inquisitive bent for cosmic affairs will enjoy this mind-stretching journey into the mysteries and majesty of the physical universe, where they'll share the author's explanations and speculations about why the speed of light is the speed of time, whether it may be possible to travel backward in time, how black holes are formed, how it is possible that space is curved, and much more. For anyone curious about the nature of the universe and how relativity theory continues to help scientists unlock its secrets, this accessible popular treatment is an invaluable companion and guide.

Full Product Details

Author:   Stan Gibilisco
Publisher:   Dover Publications Inc.
Imprint:   Dover Publications Inc.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.335kg
ISBN:  

9780486266596

ISBN 10:   0486266591
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   28 March 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

"The Speed of Light Is the Speed of Time 1 The Fundamental Axiom of Relativity Reference Frames Light Speed Ether Theory Indirect Observations Theoretically Faster than Light Seeing Back in Time What is Light? Particle Theory Wave Theory Matter is Energy 2 ""What Does ""Simultaneous"" Mean?"" Time is Distance Time Stations Clocks in Space Very Far Ago The Effect of Motion Motion of a Viewer Moving light Sources Red and Blue Shift Expanding Space 3 Time Distortion Cosmic Time Time Distortion as a Result of Motion A Light-Beam Clock: Special Relativity Point of View Calculating the Time-Distortion Factor The General Case The Twin Paradox The Rotation Paradox Standards of Motion The General Theory Addition of Velocities 4 Distortion of Space and Mass Time Dimensions Velocity-Corrected Space-Time Moving Rods Moving Disks Three Spatial Dimensions Mesons Inertial Mass In Motion Conservation of Momentum A Contradiction 5 Journeys to the Stars Mass Versus Velocity Space Ship Design for High Speed A Trip to Alpha Centauri Time Travel Backward Time Travel Difficulties with Interstellar Travel Telecommunications Star Hopping Have We Been Visited? Close Encounters Project Ozma 6 Dimensions and Hyperspace ""Hyperspace"" Communication What is a Dimension? The Cartesian System Polar Coordinates Two Space The Distance Formula for Plane Geometry Euclidean or Non-Euclidean? Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Three-Space The Hypersphere The Four Cube Time as the Fourth Dimension Escaping from a Cell Intersecting Spaces How We See Lesser Spaces More than Four Dimension Interior Angles of a Triangle Refraction Geodetic Lines ""Coordinates in ""Spherical Universes"" ""Coordinates in ""Non-Spherical"" Universes"" 7 The Theory of General Relativity Distance Through Progressively More Dimensions Centrifugal Force Alone in the Universe A Universe of Two Acceleration and Gravitation Inside the Ball Distortion of Time and Space Caused by Acceleration Resolving the Twin Paradox The Rotational Acceleration Field Rotating Coordinates All Points of View Are Equally Valid One-to-One Correspondences Acceleration Distorts Space Deflection of a Photon with Circular Motion The Principal of Equivalence Light from the Stars The Perihelion of Mercury Red Shift Caused by Gravitation Gravity Waves The Unified Field Theory 8 Anomalies in Space Is Space Really Curved? The Death of a Star Gravitational Collapse An Outside View Gravitational Radius Versus Mass How Common Are Black Holes? Gravitational Shock Waves Strange Binary Stars Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources Collapsars and Space Travel Collapsars and Time Travel Black-Hole Universes 9 The Structure and Evolution of the Universe Is Our Universe a Black Hole? The Universe of Ptolemy ""Coperrnicus, Tycho and Kepler"" Galileo and Newton Orbital Geometry According to Newton Newton's Absolute Space and Time The Advent of Modern Cosmology Distance Measurements in the Cosmos ""Slipherm de Sitter, and Hubble"" The Steady-State Theory The Beginning of Time The End of Time"

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions