Einstein's Universe

Gravity at Work and Play
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-514285-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zee, A.

Zee, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Relativität, Gravitation
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony Zee is a Permanent Member of the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Professor of Physics at the University of California in Santa Barbara. His other books include Fearful Symmetry and The Unity of Forces.