The Special Theory of Relativity (Advanced Book Classics) - Hardcover

Bohm, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201094487 ISBN 13: 9780201094480

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1989

Synopsis

In these inspiring lectures David Bohm explores Albert Einstein’s celebrated Theory of Relativity that transformed forever the way we think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the theory were far more revolutionary both in scope and impact even than this. Stepping back from dense theoretical and scientific detail in this eye-opening work, Bohm describes how the notion of relativity strikes at the heart of our very conception of the universe, regardless of whether we are physicists or philosophers.

About this title

About the Author:

David Bohm (1917–1992). A close colleague of Einstein’s at Princeton University after World War II, Bohm would himself go on to become one of the great physicists of the twentieth century. Persecuted for his radical politics during the era of the McCarthy hearings, he left the US in 1952 to teach first in Brazil and then in the UK.

Popular Science/Physics/Philosophy

Review:

'Bohm presents a highly original view of what it means to look at the world with new eyes.' – Journal of Consciousness Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0201094487
• ISBN 13: 9780201094480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236