Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne
English | 1995| ISBN: 0393312763, 0393035050 | PDF Conv | 603 pages | 10 Mb
Astronomy,Relativity
English | 1995| ISBN: 0393312763, 0393035050 | PDF Conv | 603 pages | 10 Mb
Astronomy,Relativity
This book's subtitle explains it all. Virtually all astrophysicists accept the fact that Einstein's theory of general relativity is the best model of physical reality that we have. In other words, it is essentially correct. Yet the model requires the existence of physical phenomena beyond one's wildest imagination.
One of the investigators attempting to fathom the depths of the theory, Thorne here describes the people who have done the work and the trails, both false and fruitful, they have followed. He brings us up-to-date on the state of the art in black hole research and the attempts to find definitive proof of their existence. Even with the mathematics removed, his explanations can be pretty heavy going. Nevertheless, the payoff is worth the work. For academic and larger public library science collections.