Tony Hey, Anthony J. G. Hey, Patrick Walters

Einstein's Mirror

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Produktbeschreibung

New title from the authors of "The Quantum Universe". An accessible and non-mathematical account of Einstein's theory of relativity. 70 line diagrams, 110 half-tones, 60 colour plates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 983g
• ISBN-13: 9780521435321
• ISBN-10: 0521435323
• Artikelnr.: 26747809

Autorenporträt

Tony Hey is Vice President of Microsoft Research and has published over 150 research papers on particle physics, computer science and multi-disciplinary eScience. He is the co-author, with Ian Aitchison, of the graduate textbook Gauge Theories in Particle Physics (4th edition) and co-editor of Richard Feynman's Lectures on Computation. He is also co-author of popular science books on quantum mechanics and relativity, The New Quantum Universe and Einstein's Mirror. Most recently, he co-edited The Fourth Paradigm, a book about eScience and the new era of data-intensive science.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. A revolution in time
2. The nature of light
3. Light and time
4. The ultimate speed
5. E=mc2
6. Matter and anti-matter
7. Little boy and fat man: relativity in action
8. Down to Earth
9. Warped space
10. The Big Bang, black holes and unified fields
Afterword: Relativity and science fiction
Index.