Gravity's Century : From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes / Ron Cowen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowen, Ron, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

General relativity (Physics).

Gravity.

Quantum theory.

Astrophysics.

Gravitation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Ron Cowen offers a sweeping account of the century of experimentation that has consistently confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity. He shows how we got from Eddington's pivotal observations of the 1919 eclipse to the Event Horizon Telescope, aimed at starlight wrapping around the black hole at our galaxy's center.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Genesis

2. From Turmoil to Triumph

3. Eddington on a Mission

4. Expanding the Universe

5. Black Holes and Testing General Relativity

6. Quantum Gravity

7. Hearing Black Holes

8. Imaging Black Holes

Source Notes

Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674239289

0674239288

9780674239272

067423927X

OCLC:

1091029123