Einstein's Universe Gravity at Work and Play

Name: Einstein's Universe Gravity at Work and Play
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ISBN: 9780195142853

ISBN-10: 0195142853

ISBN-13: 9780195142853

Edition: 2001

Authors: A. Zee

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On Albert Einstein's seventy-sixth and final birthday, a friend gave him a simple toy made from a broomstick, a brass ball attached to a length of string, and a weak spring. Einstein was delighted: the toy worked on a principle he had conceived fifty years earlier when he was working on his revolutionary theory of gravity--a principle whose implications are still confounding physicists today. Starting with this winning anecdote, Anthony Zee begins his animated discussion of phenomena ranging from the emergence of galaxies to the curvature of space-time, evidence for the existence of gravity waves, and the shape of the universe in the first nanoseconds of creation and today. Making complex…

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List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/19/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 8.82" wide x 5.91" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface to the Oxford Edition


Preface


Prologue: The Apple and the Moon



The Rise of Gravity



An Old Man's Toy



Hastening Through Space and Time



The Mighty Shall Be Weak



The Expanding Universe



Outward Bound



Darkness at Night



From the Big Chill to the Big Bang



Structures Out of the Void



The Universe Begets Matter



The Rich Get Richer



From Hair Whorls to the Edge of Creation



Ghost Riders in the Sky



Crowned with a Halo



The Mystery of Gravity



The Fall and Rise of Gravity



The Music of Strings



The Thinking Man and the Laughing God


Afterword


Notes


Index