|
A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime (Scientific American Library)
|
 |
Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥
List Price: $32.95
This item is currently not available.
|
This is a beautiful, poetic, and generous book. I found that after reading and mulling over each section, I could eventually visualize how space was behaving under the influence of mass, and could also see why one needed to choose one's point of view carefully to understand the physics.The book is intended as an introduction to general relativity, w... »
|
|
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
|
 |
Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥
List Price: $24.00
This item is currently not available.
|
It's difficult, writes Lee Smolin in this lucid overview of modern physics, to talk meaningfully about the big questions of space and time, given the limitations of our technology and perceptions. It's more difficult still given some of the contradictions and inconsistencies that obtain between quantum theory, which "was invented to explain why ato... »
|
|
The Curvature of Spacetime
Although this book is a general public level presentation in the fields of special and general relativity, it reads like a novel, presents many historical... »
|
SchrA dinger: Life and Thought
Walter Moore captures the life of Erwin SchrA dinger, one of the most important theoretical physicists of the 20th century, covering his career, science, ... »
|
|
|