Understanding Relativity A Conceptual Journey Into Spacetime, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
This book bridges the huge gap between popular science and mathematical treatments of Einstein's theories. It explains special and general relativity, gravity, black holes, and gravitational waves, also presenting current ideas about dark matter and dark energy. The explanations are entirely no...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | The Frontiers Collection
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- What is (the) matter?
- On the velocity of massless waves
- On the velocity of massive waves
- The relative, the absolute, and the paradoxical
- The Minkowski metric
- The equivalence principle
- The curvature of spacetime
- How waves change shapes and volumes
- The effects of curvature
- A journey to the centre of a black hole
- Black hole phenomena
- Gravitational waves
- All that matters in the dark universe
- An alternative theory and conclusion
- References and sources