Simply Einstein
Subtitle: relativity demystified
By: Richard Wolfson
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Relativity (Physics) -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works
Other titles: Relativity demystified
Description: "In clear, understandable terms, physicist Richard Wolfson explores the ideas at the heart of relativity and shows how they lead to such seeming absurdities as time travel, curved space, black holes, and new meaning for the idea of past and future. Drawing from years of teaching modern physics to nonscientists, Wolfson explains in a lively, conversational style the simple principles underlying Einstein's theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-255) and index
Table of contents: title: The self-creating universe and other absurdities; title: Tennis, tea, and time travel; title: Moving heaven and earth; title: Let there be light; title: Ether dreams; title: Crisis in physics; title: Einstein to the rescue; title: Stretching time; title: Star trips and squeezed space; title: The same time?; title: Past, present, future, and; title: elsewhere; title: Faster than light?; title: Is everything relative?; title: A problem of gravity; title: Into the black hole; title: Einstein's universe