Gravity’s Century : : From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes / / Ron Cowen.
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 ho...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Introduction -- |t 1. Genesis -- |t 2. From Turmoil to Triumph -- |t 3. Eddington on a Mission -- |t 4. Expanding the Universe -- |t 5. Black Holes and Testing General Relativity -- |t 6. Quantum Gravity -- |t 7. Hearing Black Holes -- |t 8. Imaging Black Holes -- |t Source Notes -- |t Further Reading -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Index |
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