Einstein relatively simple : our universe revealed in everyday language
(2014)
By:
Egdall, Ira Mark
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
530.11/EGDALL,I
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, [2014]
©2014
©2014
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9789814525589 (hard : alk. paper), 9814525588 (hard : alk. paper), 9789814525596 (pbk), 9814525596 (pbk)
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
From unknown to revolutionary --
Great conflict --
Two postulates --
A new reality --
Shrinking of time --
Simultaneity and the squeezing of space --
World's most famous equation --
Spacetime --
Einstein's dream --
"The happiest thought of my life" --
Warping of space and time --
Stitching spacetime --
What is spacetime curvature? --
Einstein's masterpiece --
Universe revealed --
In the beginning