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Gravity's century : from Einstein's eclipse to images of black holes /
An account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and the still unresolved place of gravity in quan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Genesis
- Deeper dive: Testing the equivalence principle before Einstein
- Deeper dive: Space and time: a perfect union
- From turmoil to triumph
- Deeper dive: Riemann's work and the metric tensor
- Deeper dive: The meaning of Einstein's equation
- Eddington on a mission
- Deeper dive: A history of light bending
- Expanding the universe
- Black holes and testing general relativity
- Deeper dive: New tests of Einstein's theory
- Quantum gravity
- Deeper dive: Black holes and the information paradox
- Hearing black holes
- Deeper dive: LIGO and beyond
- Deeper dive: Gravitational waves: lost and found
- Imaging black holes
- Deeper dive: A history of illustrating black holes.