The Expanding World of General Relativity (Einstein Studies)
Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG
Published: October 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9783764340605
Subjects: General relativity
First sentence: THE RECEIVED HISTORICAL VIEW OF GENERAL RELATIVITY tells US that, at the end of the nineteenth century, physicists accepted Newton's law of gravitation: there is an attractive force between any pair of bodies in the world, and this force depends only on the masses of those bodies and on their mutual distance.