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9780393325072

SIMPLY EINSTEIN PA

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393325072

  • ISBN10:

    0393325075

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-11-17
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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With this reader-friendly book, it doesn't take an Einstein to understand the theory of relativity and its remarkable consequences.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
1 The Self-Creating Universe and Other Absurdities 3(8)
2 Tennis, Tea, and Time Travel 11(7)
3 Moving Heaven and Earth 18(18)
4 Let There Be Light 36(19)
5 Ether Dreams 55(13)
6 Crisis in Physics 68(10)
7 Einstein to the Rescue 78(8)
8 Stretching Time 86(23)
9 Star Trips and Squeezed Space 109(18)
10 The Same Time? 127(12)
11 Past, Present, Future, and Elsewhere 139(10)
12 Faster than Light? 149(15)
13 Is Everything Relative? 164(10)
14 A Problem of Gravity 174(29)
15 Into the Black Hole 203(26)
16 Einstein's Universe 229(12)
Appendix: Time Dilation 241(4)
Glossary 245(8)
Further Readings 253(4)
Index 257

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