Black Holes & Time Warps: Einsteins Outrageous Legacy -- 1995 publication Tapa blanda - 1995

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London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. 1995 first UK edition paperback in very good condition. No marks, clean and bright, uncreased spine. A small crease to lower right of the paper cover, otherwise just light shelf wear. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

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London: Papermac, 1995. New edition. New edition.. Trade paperback. Very good.. 619 p. Audience: College/higher education; General/trade.

Papermac, 1995 Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them. Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time. Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has… Leer más

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