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Understanding relativitya conceptual journey into spacetime, black holes and gravitational waves /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Understanding relativityby Wouter Schmitz.
Reminder of title:	a conceptual journey into spacetime, black holes and gravitational waves /
Author:	Schmitz, Wouter.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	x, 421 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Relativity (Physics)
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17219-9
ISBN:	9783031172199$q(electronic bk.)

Understanding relativitya conceptual journey into spacetime, black holes and gravitational waves /
Schmitz, Wouter.

Understanding relativitya conceptual journey into spacetime, black holes and gravitational waves /[electronic resource] :by Wouter Schmitz. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - x, 421 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Frontiers collection,2197-6619. - Frontiers collection..

Introduction -- What is (the) matter? -- On the velocity of massless waves -- On the velocity of massive waves -- The relative, the absolute, and the paradoxical -- The Minkowski metric -- The equivalence principle -- The curvature of spacetime -- How waves change shapes and volumes -- The effects of curvature -- A journey to the centre of a black hole -- Black hole phenomena -- Gravitational waves -- All that matters in the dark universe -- An alternative theory and conclusion -- References and sources.

This book bridges the huge gap between popular science and mathematical treatments of Einstein's theories. It explains special and general relativity, gravity, black holes, and gravitational waves, also presenting current ideas about dark matter and dark energy. The explanations are entirely non-mathematical, using many color pictures and clear concepts. In this way, the reader is led to a much deeper understanding than any popular science book can provide. The author has written this book for everyone who wants to go beyond superficial descriptions of relativity's remarkable phenomena, but is not equipped to read the professional literature and complicated math behind the theory. By providing a complete description in terms of concepts and pictures, the book answers many questions about why the theory works as it does. For example, it explains why and how momentum and pressure are related to gravity; why and how mass causes spacetime to curve and how curvature tells objects how to move; it also reveals the origin of the ring seen around the first ever image of a black hole. Not least, the reader will learn in detail how gravitational waves are produced and measured. Since their conception, the theories of relativity have appealed to the public's imagination. Thanks to this book, readers now have the opportunity to convert their fascination with the topic to a deep understanding.

ISBN: 9783031172199$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-17219-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

189569
Relativity (Physics)

LC Class. No.: QC173.55

Dewey Class. No.: 530.11

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