Relativity in Curved Spacetime: Life Without Special Relativity - Softcover

Baird, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0955706807 ISBN 13: 9780955706806

Publisher: Chocolate Tree Books, 2007

Synopsis

Relativity theory has become one of the icons of Twentieth Century science. It's reckoned to be a difficult subject, taught as a layered series of increasingly difficult mathematics and increasingly abstract concepts. We're told that relativity theory is supposed to be this complicated and counter-intuitive. But how much of this historical complexity is really necessary? Can we bypass the interpretations and paradoxes and pseudoparadoxes of Einstein's special theory and jump directly to a deeper and more intuitive description of reality? What if curvature is a fundamental part of physics, and a final theory of relativity shouldn't reduce to Einstein's "flat" 1905 theory //on principle//? "Relativity..." takes us on a whistlestop tour of Twentieth Century physics - from black holes, quantum mechanics, wormholes and the Big Bang to the workings of the human mind, and asks: what would physics look like without special relativity? 394 printed pages, 234×156 mm, ~200 figures and illustrations, includes bibliography and index www.relativitybook.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Chocolate Tree Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0955706807
• ISBN 13: 9780955706806
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 394