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Black Holes & Time Warps - Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R509
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Black Holes & Time Warps - Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback, New edition)

Kip Thorne; Foreword by Stephen W Hawking

Series: Commonwealth Fund Book Program, 0

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Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them. Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe?

Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time.

Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers.

n this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know?

General

Imprint: W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin: United States
Series: Commonwealth Fund Book Program, 0
Release date: May 1995
First published: 1995
Authors: Kip Thorne
Foreword by: Stephen W Hawking
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 619
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31276-8
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > General
Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > General
LSN: 0-393-31276-3
Barcode: 9780393312768

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