A journey into gravity and spacetime, John Archibald Wheeler
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A journey into gravity and spacetime, John Archibald Wheeler
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A journey into gravity and spacetime
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John Archibald Wheeler
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Scientific American Library series, no. 31
Summary
Spine title: Gravity and spacetime. Discusses Einsteins geometric theory of gravity and chronicles the ideas and contributions of other scientists and their concepts of space and time
Table Of Contents
Great men, great ideas -- From fall to float -- Interval : revelation that all of space is ours -- Boomeranging through the Earth -- Tides : the grip of spacetime on mass -- The boundary of a boundary : where the action is -- From potter's wheel to space geometry -- Picturing space and spacetime around a center of mass -- Stones in flight and planets in orbit -- Gravity waves -- Black holes -- A farewell look at gravity
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