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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this short book, renowned theoretical physicist and author Carlo Rovelli gives a straightforward introduction to Einstein's general relativity, our current theory of gravitation. Focusing on conceptual clarity, he derives all the basic results in the simplest way, taking care to explain the physical, philosophical, and mathematical ideas at the heart of 'the most beautiful of all scientific theories'. Some of the main applications of general relativity...
2) White holes
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. We slip beyond its horizon and tumble down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we see geometry fold. Time and space pull and stretch. And finally, at the black hole's core, space and time dissolve, and a white hole is born. Rovelli has dedicated his career to uniting the time-warping ideas of general relativity and the perplexing uncertainties of quantum mechanics....
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xx, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that...
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