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Black holes and time warps : Einstein's outrageous legacy, Kip S. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology

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"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 been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know?" "Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component."--Jacket
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
619 pages
Contents
  • Foreword / by Stephen Hawking
  • Introduction / by Frederick Seitz
  • Preface: What this book is about, and how to read it
  • Prologue: A voyage among the holes, in which the reader, in a science fiction tale, encounters black holes and all their strange properties as best we understand them in the 1990s
  • The relativity of space and time, in which Einstein destroys Newton's conceptions of space and time as absolute
  • The warping of space and time, in which Hermann Minkowski unifies space and time, and Einstein warps them
  • Black holes discovered and rejected, in which Einstein's laws of warped spacetime predict black holes, and Einstein rejects the prediction
  • The mystery of the white dwarfs, in which Eddington and Chandrasekhar do battle over the death of massive stars; must they shrink when they die, creating black holes? or will quantum mechanics save them?
  • Implosion is compulsory, in which even the nuclear force, supposedly the strongest of all forces, cannot resist the crush of gravity
  • Implosion to what? in which all the armaments of theoretical physics cannot ward off the conclusion: implosion produces black holes
  • The golden age, in which black holes are found to spin and pulsate, store energy and release it, and have no hair
  • The search, in which a method to search for black holes in the sky is proposed and pursued and succeeds (probably)
  • Serendipity, in which astronomers are forced to conclude, without any prior predictions, that black holes a millionfold heavier than the Sun, inhabit the cores of galaxies (probably)
  • Ripples of curvature, in which gravitational waves carry to Earth encoded symphonies of black holes colliding, and physicists devise instruments to moniter the waves and decipher their symphonies
  • What is reality? in which spacetime is viewed as curved on Sundays and flat on Mondays, and horizons are made from vacuum on Sundays and charge on Monday, but Sunday's experiments and Monday's experiments agree in all details
  • Black holes evaporate, in which a black hole horizon is chothed in an atmosphere of radiation and hot particles that slowly evaporate, and the hole shrinks and then explodes
  • Inside black holes, in which physicists, wrestling with Einstein's equation, seek the secret of what is inside a black hole: a route into another universe? a singularity with infinite tidal gravity? the end of time and gravity, and birth of quantum foam?
  • Wormholes and time machines, in which the author seeks insight into physical laws by asking: can highly advanced civilizations build wormholes through hyperspace for rapid interstellar travel and machines for traveling backward in time?
  • Epilogue: An overview of Einstein's legacy, past and future, and an update on several central characters
  • Characters: a list of characters who appear significantly at several different places in the book
  • Chronology: a chronology of events, insights, and discoveries
  • Glossary: what makes me confident of what I say?
Isbn
9780393035056
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http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780393035056.pdf
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Black holes and time warps : Einstein's outrageous legacy
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Black holes and time warps
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Einstein's outrageous legacy
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Kip S. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
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Language
eng
Summary
"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 been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know?" "Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component."--Jacket
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Thorne, Kip S
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530.1/1
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Index
index present
LC call number
QC6
LC item number
.T526 1994
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Physics
  • Relativity (Physics)
  • Astrophysics
  • Black holes (Astronomy)
  • Physics
  • Astrophysics
  • Black holes (Astronomy)
  • Physics
  • Relativity (Physics)
  • Astrofysica
  • Zwarte gaten
  • Relativiteitstheorie
  • Physique
  • Relativité (physique)
  • Trous noirs (astronomie)
  • Astrophysics
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Black holes and time warps : Einstein's outrageous legacy, Kip S. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
Link
http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780393035056.pdf
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-600) and indexes
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Contents
Foreword / by Stephen Hawking -- Introduction / by Frederick Seitz -- Preface: What this book is about, and how to read it -- Prologue: A voyage among the holes, in which the reader, in a science fiction tale, encounters black holes and all their strange properties as best we understand them in the 1990s -- The relativity of space and time, in which Einstein destroys Newton's conceptions of space and time as absolute -- The warping of space and time, in which Hermann Minkowski unifies space and time, and Einstein warps them -- Black holes discovered and rejected, in which Einstein's laws of warped spacetime predict black holes, and Einstein rejects the prediction -- The mystery of the white dwarfs, in which Eddington and Chandrasekhar do battle over the death of massive stars; must they shrink when they die, creating black holes? or will quantum mechanics save them? -- Implosion is compulsory, in which even the nuclear force, supposedly the strongest of all forces, cannot resist the crush of gravity -- Implosion to what? in which all the armaments of theoretical physics cannot ward off the conclusion: implosion produces black holes -- The golden age, in which black holes are found to spin and pulsate, store energy and release it, and have no hair -- The search, in which a method to search for black holes in the sky is proposed and pursued and succeeds (probably) -- Serendipity, in which astronomers are forced to conclude, without any prior predictions, that black holes a millionfold heavier than the Sun, inhabit the cores of galaxies (probably) -- Ripples of curvature, in which gravitational waves carry to Earth encoded symphonies of black holes colliding, and physicists devise instruments to moniter the waves and decipher their symphonies -- What is reality? in which spacetime is viewed as curved on Sundays and flat on Mondays, and horizons are made from vacuum on Sundays and charge on Monday, but Sunday's experiments and Monday's experiments agree in all details -- Black holes evaporate, in which a black hole horizon is chothed in an atmosphere of radiation and hot particles that slowly evaporate, and the hole shrinks and then explodes -- Inside black holes, in which physicists, wrestling with Einstein's equation, seek the secret of what is inside a black hole: a route into another universe? a singularity with infinite tidal gravity? the end of time and gravity, and birth of quantum foam? -- Wormholes and time machines, in which the author seeks insight into physical laws by asking: can highly advanced civilizations build wormholes through hyperspace for rapid interstellar travel and machines for traveling backward in time? -- Epilogue: An overview of Einstein's legacy, past and future, and an update on several central characters -- Characters: a list of characters who appear significantly at several different places in the book -- Chronology: a chronology of events, insights, and discoveries -- Glossary: what makes me confident of what I say?
Control code
ocm28147932
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
619 pages
Isbn
9780393035056
Lccn
93002014
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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illustrations
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  • (Sirsi) o28147932
  • (OCoLC)28147932
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Black holes and time warps : Einstein's outrageous legacy, Kip S. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
Link
http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780393035056.pdf
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-600) and indexes
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Foreword / by Stephen Hawking -- Introduction / by Frederick Seitz -- Preface: What this book is about, and how to read it -- Prologue: A voyage among the holes, in which the reader, in a science fiction tale, encounters black holes and all their strange properties as best we understand them in the 1990s -- The relativity of space and time, in which Einstein destroys Newton's conceptions of space and time as absolute -- The warping of space and time, in which Hermann Minkowski unifies space and time, and Einstein warps them -- Black holes discovered and rejected, in which Einstein's laws of warped spacetime predict black holes, and Einstein rejects the prediction -- The mystery of the white dwarfs, in which Eddington and Chandrasekhar do battle over the death of massive stars; must they shrink when they die, creating black holes? or will quantum mechanics save them? -- Implosion is compulsory, in which even the nuclear force, supposedly the strongest of all forces, cannot resist the crush of gravity -- Implosion to what? in which all the armaments of theoretical physics cannot ward off the conclusion: implosion produces black holes -- The golden age, in which black holes are found to spin and pulsate, store energy and release it, and have no hair -- The search, in which a method to search for black holes in the sky is proposed and pursued and succeeds (probably) -- Serendipity, in which astronomers are forced to conclude, without any prior predictions, that black holes a millionfold heavier than the Sun, inhabit the cores of galaxies (probably) -- Ripples of curvature, in which gravitational waves carry to Earth encoded symphonies of black holes colliding, and physicists devise instruments to moniter the waves and decipher their symphonies -- What is reality? in which spacetime is viewed as curved on Sundays and flat on Mondays, and horizons are made from vacuum on Sundays and charge on Monday, but Sunday's experiments and Monday's experiments agree in all details -- Black holes evaporate, in which a black hole horizon is chothed in an atmosphere of radiation and hot particles that slowly evaporate, and the hole shrinks and then explodes -- Inside black holes, in which physicists, wrestling with Einstein's equation, seek the secret of what is inside a black hole: a route into another universe? a singularity with infinite tidal gravity? the end of time and gravity, and birth of quantum foam? -- Wormholes and time machines, in which the author seeks insight into physical laws by asking: can highly advanced civilizations build wormholes through hyperspace for rapid interstellar travel and machines for traveling backward in time? -- Epilogue: An overview of Einstein's legacy, past and future, and an update on several central characters -- Characters: a list of characters who appear significantly at several different places in the book -- Chronology: a chronology of events, insights, and discoveries -- Glossary: what makes me confident of what I say?
Control code
ocm28147932
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
619 pages
Isbn
9780393035056
Lccn
93002014
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o28147932
  • (OCoLC)28147932

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