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Learning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaitre - Before the Big Bang Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Learning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaitre - Before the Big Bang Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book presents the first English translation of the original
French treatise "La Physique d'Einstein" written by the young
Georges Lemai tre in 1922, only six years after the publication of
Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity. It includes an
historical introduction and a critical edition of the original
treatise in French supplemented by the author's own later additions
and corrections. Monsignor Georges Lemai tre can be considered the
founder of the "Big Bang Theory" and a visionary architect of
modern Cosmology. The scientific community is only beginning to
grasp the full extent of the legacy of this towering figure of 20th
century physics. Against the best advice of the greatest names of
his time, the young Lemai tre was convinced, solely through the
study of Einstein's theory of General Relativity, that space and
time must have had a beginning with a tremendous "Big Bang" from a
"quantum primeval atom" resulting in an ever-expanding Universe
with a positive cosmological constant. But how did the young Lemai
tre, essentially on his own, come to grips with the physics of
Einstein? A year before his ordination as a diocesan priest, he
submitted the audacious treatise, published in this book, that was
to earn him Fellowships to study at Cambridge, MIT and Harvard, and
launched him on a scientific path of ground-breaking discoveries.
Almost a century after Lemai tre's seminal publications of 1927 and
1931, this highly pedagogical treatise is still of timely interest
to young minds and remains of great value from a history of science
perspective.
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