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An Introduction to the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008)
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An Introduction to the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008)
Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 750
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The contemporary theoretical physics consists, by and large, of two
independent parts. The rst is the quantum theory describing the
micro-world of elementary p- ticles, the second is the theory of
gravity that concerns properties of macroscopic systems such as
stars, galaxies, and the universe. The relativistic theory of gr-
itation which is known as general relativity was created, at the
beginning of the last century, by more or less a single man from
pure idea combinations and bold guessing. The task was to "marry"
the theory of gravity with the theory of special relativity. The
rst attempts were aimed at considering the gravitational potential
as a eld in Minkowski space-time. All those attempts failed; it
took 10 years until Einstein nally solved the problem. The dif
culty was that the old theory of gravity as well as the young
theory of special relativity had to be modi ed. The next 50 years
were dif cult for this theory because its experimental basis
remained weak and its complicated mathematical structure was not
well understood. However, in the subsequent period this theory
ourished. Thanks to improvements in the te- nology and to the big
progress in the methods of astronomical observations, the amount of
observable facts to which general relativity is applicable was
consid- ably enlarged. This is why general relativity is, today,
one of the best experimentally tested theories while many competing
theories could be disproved. Also the conc- tual and mathematical
fundamentals are better understood now.
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