Einstein's universe

Gravity at work and play

A Zee

282 pages, parution le 01/08/2001

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Résumé

In his conversational style, Anthony Zee examines the nature of gravity and its role in our universe. Zee starts from a birthday gift that Albert Einstein received on his seventy-sixth birthday that worked on the main principle in his theory of gravity. From there Zee leads the reader through the implications of Einstein's theory and its influence on modern physics. Einstein's Universe in a witty and accessible style also examines how the theory of gravity has shaped our understanding of how the universe began, the development of stars and galaxies, and the nature of space itself. The new Oxford edition will include a new afterword by the author that will bring the subject matter up to date.

Readership: A general audience; those interested in popular physics and students on physics courses.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Apple and the Moon
I. The Rise of Gravity
1 An Old Man's Toy
2 Hastening Through Space and Time
3 The Mighty Shall Be Weak
II. The Expanding Universe
4 Outward Bound
5 Darkness at Night
6 From the Big Chill to the Big Bang
III. Structures Out of the Void
7 The Universe Begets Matter
8 The Rich Get Richer
9 From Hair Whorls to the Edge of Creation
10 Ghost Riders in the Sky
11 Crowned with a Halo
IV. The Mystery of Gravity
12 The Fall and Rise of Gravity
13 The Music of Strings
14 The Thinking Man and the Laughing God
Afterword
Notes
Index

L'auteur - A Zee

A. Zee is a Permanent Member of the Institute for Theoretical Physics and a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Unity of Forces in the Universe, Einstein's Universe, Swallowing Clouds, and Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics (Princeton).

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	A Zee
Parution	01/08/2001
Nb. de pages	282
Format	15,6 x 23,4
Couverture	Broché
Poids	450g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780195142853