The insights of relativity have illuminated a century of
astronomical discovery, often going beyond the phenomena that
Einstein lived to see. This book shows, in nonmathematical ways,
how deeply these ways of viewing the Universe have informed our
interpretations of it, and how many of the amazing discoveries of
these decades have made sense only as part of Einstein's universe.
The author brings together the ways in which we see the bizarre
effects of relativity played out on a cosmic scale. None of this is
particularly new to practicing astronomers, but much has yet to be
seen outside technical journals. The presentation avoids
mathematics (except for the most famous equation in all of physics
), and is designed to be accessible to the interested public.
Gravitational lenses, the visible effects of light-travel delays,
the search for black holes, the ways relativity in atomic nuclei
makes stars shine, are all treated.
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