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The Curious History of Relativity
Jean Eisenstaedt
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Black holes may obliterate most things that come near them, but they saved the theory of general relativity. Einstein's theory was quickly accepted as the true theory of gravity after its publication in 1915, but soon took a back seat in physics to quantum mechanics and languished for decades on the blackboards of mathematicians. Not until the existence of black holes by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose in the 1960s, after Einstein's death, was the theory revived.
Almost one hundred years after general relativity replaced Newton's theory of gravitation, The Curious History of Relativity tells the story of both events surrounding general relativity and the techniques employed by Einstein and the relativists to construct, develop, and understand his almost impenetrable theory. Jean Eisenstaedt, one of the world's leading experts on the subject, also discusses the theory's place in the evolution of twentieth-century physics. He describes the main stages in the development of general relativity: its beginnings, its strange crossing of the desert during Einstein's lifetime while under heated criticism, and its new life from the 1960s on, when it became vital to the understanding of black holes and the observation of exotic objects, and, eventually, to the discovery of the accelerating universe. We witness Einstein's construction of his theory, as well as the work of his fascinated, discouraged, and enthusiastic colleagues--physicists, mathematicians, and astronomers.
Written with flair, The Curious History of Relativity poses--and answers--the difficult questions raised by Einstein's magnificent intellectual feat.
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Euclidean space, Gravitational constant, General covariance, Quantum electrodynamics, Wormhole, Cosmological constant, Strangeness, Schwarzschild metric, Quantum field theory, Theoretical physics, Gravitational lens, Introduction to general relativity, Physicist, Geometry, Principle of covariance, Science and Hypothesis, Classical electromagnetism, Theory of relativity, Acceleration, Einstein field equations, Infinitesimal, Riemannian geometry, Twin paradox, Exotic star, Newton's law of universal gravitation, Lorentz group, Einstein tensor, Classical physics, Lorentz transformation, Special relativity, Wave–particle duality, Poisson's equation, Relativistic particle, Minkowski space, Astrophysics, Mathematical problem, General relativity, Thought experiment, Theory, Hypothesis, Classical mechanics, Mach's principle, Physical cosmology, Gravitational field, Hendrik Lorentz, Elementary particle, Hubble's law, Gravitational wave, Experimental physics, Quantum mechanics, Absolute time and space, Richard Feynman, Philosophy of physics, Gravitational mirage, Calculation, Emission theory, Simultaneity, Equivalence principle, Photon, Interferometry, Gaussian curvature, Thales' theorem, Gravitational potential, Gravity, Astronomer, Modern physics, Test particle, Beyond Einstein (book), Schwarzschild radius, Tests of general relativity