Was Einstein Right? 2nd Edition - Clifford Will

Was Einstein Right? 2nd Edition

Putting General Relativity To The Test

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
1993
Basic Books (Verlag)
978-0-465-09086-0 (ISBN)
21,85 inkl. MwSt
First published in 1986, this award-winning account of how Einstein's theory holds up after more than seventy-five years has been updated to accommodate the most recent experimental findings, as well as the exciting story of the rise and fall of the "fifth force."

Clifford M. Will is professor of physics and member of the McDonnell centre for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

* The Rennaissance of General Relativity * The Straight Road to Curved Space-Time * The Gravitational Red Shift of Light and Clocks * The Departure of Light from the Straight and Narrow * The Perihelion Shift of Mercury: Triumph or Trouble? * The Time Delay of Light: Better Late Than Never * Do the Earth and the Moon Fall the Same? * The Rise and Fall of the Brans-Dicke Theory * Is the Gravitational Constant Constant? * The Binary Pulsar: Gravity Waves Exist! * Is it Twilight Time for the Fifth Force? * The Frontiers of Experimental Relativity * Astronomy after the Renaissance: Is General Relativity Useful?

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.6.1993
Sprache englisch
Maße 142 x 215 mm
Gewicht 358 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Relativitätstheorie
ISBN-10 0-465-09086-9 / 0465090869
ISBN-13 978-0-465-09086-0 / 9780465090860
Zustand Neuware
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