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No Shadow of a Doubt : the 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity /
On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the centu...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Prologue: May 29, 1919; 1. The Experiment That Weighed Light; 2. Eclipses; 3. Two Pacifists, Einstein and Eddington; 4. Europe in Its Madness; 5. Preparations in Time of War; 6. The Opportunity of the Century?; 7. Tools of the Trade; 8. The Improvised Expedition; 9. Outward Bound; 10. Through Cloud, Hopefully; 11. Not Only Because of Theory; 12. Lights All Askew in the Heavens; 13. Theories and Experiments; 14. The Unbearable Heaviness of Light; 15. The Problem of Scientific Bias; Epilogue: Where Are They Now?; Acknowledgments; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index