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Relativity In Our Time (Hardcover)
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Relativity In Our Time (Hardcover)
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"Relativity In our Time" is a book concerning the relevance of
Einstein's theory to human relations in contemporary times. lt is
physics and it is philosophy. lt is a discussion about one of the
greatest of all pillars of 20th century thought and science. Based
on a seminar course for a mixture of science and humanities
students, the approach and narrative style leads the reader towards
the frontier of thinking in this farreaching subject. Sachs deals
with the whole spread of relativity, starting from the early
history of Galileo and Faraday, he arrives at the foundation of the
special theory. There is a logical transition to the general theory
while the last part of the book covers the mind-testing realms of
unified field theory, Mach's principle and cosmology. The book
begins with atomistic, deterministic, classical physics and goes on
towards a view of continuous fields of matter and a clearer view of
spacetime. The reader is led into Einstein's extension of this
theory towards a unified force field; consequently the authors
address the issue of the validity of linear mathematics compared
with the realism of a non- linear universe.; Such arguments today
are leading towards a new paradigm in science - a study and
description of nonlinear natural systems especially far from
equilibrium systems; their energetics and dynamics. This book
should be of value to postgraduates, undergraduates, secondary
students and professionals in physics and philosophy and anyone
with an interest in science subjects.
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