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Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Relativity physics > General
Books on Einstein and his theories abound. However, this book is
uniquely different. It presents key concepts in Special and General
Relativity, in verse form. The aim is to make Einstein's insights
more fun to learn. It uses rhyme and rhythm to render reading
memorable and thus pleasurable. Moreover, what is pleasurable may
foster a better understanding, as well as retention, of ideas. Use
of verse apparently worked effectively in ancient times: in the
Iliad and Odyssey of Homer among the Greeks; in the Vedas and
Upanishads of ancient India; both rhyme, in the form of
alliteration, and rhythm in Beowulf among the Anglo-Saxons, etc.
The target reader is college-educated, or college student in third
year, or anyone willing to puzzle it out, who desires to understand
why time slows down and lengths contract when objects are in
relative motion; how Science, Einstein's theories in particular,
can contribute to answering the perennial question: what it is to
be human; how to time travel to the future by staying young; etc.
Relativity has a reputation of being difficult. For example,
curvature of spacetime seems so abstruse, so forbidding a concept.
But, do not disarm yourself prematurely. Do not be intimidated. As
it turns out, curvature of spacetime is tidal gravity, the cause of
familiar ocean tides. You may even have a gut feel for it. This
book will not teach you how to solve problems in Relativity. Nor
will it teach you how to prove The shortest distance takes the
longest time. No, we will spend our time grasping Einstein's
insights, their implications on Reality and on mind; and amid our
quest, on what it means to be human. More fun to learn does not
mean that verse form is the lazy road to learning. It does not mean
that verse form makes the difficult easy, or, the rough, plain. No,
the difficult remains difficult; the rough remains rough. And to
grasp it, you have to exert a determined, sustained effort and be
willing to stretch your mind to accommodate the wild notions in
Relativity. The idea motivating this book is to make the stretching
more enjoyable relative to prose by using the rhyme-rhythm features
of verse. But, stretch your mind, you have to. There is no royal,
poetic road to learning There is a feature in our history, that
stands out in view of our concerns in conveying knowledge-a feature
that the ancients aptly used. It is the oral tradition. Since the
first humans appeared, oral tradition was the sole means in
transmitting knowledge for a very long time, indeed. If we fit the
whole time since the first humans lived into a year, then writing
started only about the morning of 30th of December. That is a huge
time in which oral tradition operated, i.e. about 99.5% of our time
as humans. What does this imply? We transmitted information orally;
and we received information aurally This oral-aural conveyance was
the way for all information, including that of knowledge. In
addition, during the five hundred thousand years or so, oral
tradition honed our brains to receive knowledge aurally. To me,
this implies that our brains have a natural deep resonance to
features of language in the oral tradition. The key language
features in the oral tradition are the rhymes and rhythms of verse.
I wrote this book in verse, inspired by this thought: to make the
most out of the resonant structures in our brains engendered by
oral tradition, to convey the deep insights of Einstein on Reality.
It is my sincere wish that Einstein's ideas will find recognition
in the public understanding and thus inform the public outlook. I
invite you, everyone: Hop in with me, a time machine we ride,
Intent on chasing space-time concepts wild; To fathom Einstein's
insights into Reality, In his Special and General Relativity. Like
Wordsworth, a lonely cloud wandering, Through space and time we
will be winging, Not to appreciate the daffodils of Nature; But to
understand Nature's Architecture
The meaning of life and light are not simple to explain. The
universe cannot exist without either of these critical dimensional
components. Light is not the reflection of electro-magnetic waves
we have been taught in school and existence without life is
meaningless. After you read this book, things will become clearer
to you.
A nut and its shell, like any X and Y, are joined and separated by
a circle. The line is always diameter and circumference of a
circle. Thus, pi controls reality, 50-50.
Gravity Explained describes this universal mechanism and finally
closes the door of this eternal mystery. It is based upon the
rearrangement of our basic dimensions which invalidates temporal
time. This new theory claims and reinforces the 4 dimensions are 4
spatial dimensions and nothing to do with temporal time which only
causes ongoing confusion for the last 100 years. The primary
dimension is no.1 the first and most important as it provides a
physical means to understand and unlock many other outstanding
confusion regards the unification of the 4 forces of nature. The
mechanism of Gravity is simply explained by resolving these
dimensions and the Primary one has a construct of constant time
which is constantly emerging and populating itself with points of
zero time to form Newton's Absolute Space. Although instinctively
he knew that the Absolute should exist he did not live long enough
to provide us with a mechanism. This book does and explains it to
us in very simple terms with plenty of illustrative sketches.
This book addresses the latest advances in general relativity
research, including the classical world and spinor formalisms; keys
to understanding gravity; the continuum mechanics of space-time;
new evidences on matter without energy-stress tensor; a new
approach to study gravitational stability of the solutions to the
Einstein equations; Mond theory; polynumbers field theory; the
algebra, geometry and physics of hyperland; S2-like star orbits
near the galactic center in RN and Yukawa gravity; geodesic
analysis in multidimensional gravity models; and the collapsing of
general relativity and the singularity in the event of the Big Bang
and black holes.
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