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Einstein's Cosmos PA

ISBN: 9780393327007 | 0393327000
Edition: 00
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 5/17/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
The year 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of the paper that launched Einstein's career, made E=mc2 famous, and ushered in a revolution in science'”the paper that announced the theory of special relativity. And there's no better short book that explains just what Einstein did than Einstein's Cosmos. Keying Einstein's crucial discoveries to the simple mental images that inspired them, Michio Kaku finds a revealing new way to discuss these ideas, and delivers an appealing and always accessible introduction to Einstein's work.
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Preface: A New Look at the Legacy of Albert Einstein11(6)
Acknowledgments17(4)
Part I. First Picture: Racing a Light Beam
CHAPTER 1 Physics before Einstein
21(12)
CHAPTER 2 The Early Years
33(26)
CHAPTER 3 Special Relativity and the "Miracle Year"
59(32)
Part II. Second Picture: Warped Space-Time
CHAPTER 4 General Relativity and "the Happiest Thought of My Life"
91(22)
CHAPTER 5 The New Copernicus
113(18)
CHAPTER 6 The Big Bang and Black Holes
131(16)
Part III: The Unfinished Picture: The Unified Field Theory
CHAPTER 7 Unification and the Quantum Challenge
147(30)
CHAPTER 8 War, Peace, and E = mc˛
177(24)
CHAPTER 9 Einstein's Prophetic Legacy
201(34)
Notes235(14)
Bibliography249(4)
Index253


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