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Relativity in Curved Spacetime
Eric Baird
其他書名
Life Without Special Relativity
出版
Chocolate Tree Books
, 2007
主題
Science / General
Science / Physics / Relativity
Science / Time
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
ISBN
0955706807
9780955706806
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bU4xUMuJlukC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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, 234156 mm, 200 figures and illustrations, includes bibliography and index www.relativitybook.com