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邦訳:愛智出版。 物理学者ウォルフソンは、明瞭で理解しやすい言葉で相対性の中心にある概念を探索し、現代物理学を物理学を専攻しない人々に長年教えた経験から、生き生きした会話体でアインシュタイン理論の原理を説明します。
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2002. "Wolfson takes the fear out of Einstein's Relativity theory in this brisk piece of pop-science." - Publishers Weekly.
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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.
Relativity, Wolfson shows, gave us a new view of space and time, opening the door to questions about their flexible nature: Is the universe finite or infinite? Will it expand forever or eventually collapse in a "big crunch"? Is time travel possible? What goes on inside a black hole? How does gravity really work? These questions at the forefront of twenty-first-century physics are all rooted in the profound and sweeping vision of Albert Einstein's early twentieth-century theory. Wolfson leads his readers on an intellectual journey that culminates in a universe made almost unimaginably rich by the principles that Einstein first discovered.