Name: The Lighter Side of Gravity (en Inglés)
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Author: Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
ISBN: 9780521550093

portada The Lighter Side of Gravity (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

Año

1996

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

232

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0521550092

ISBN13

9780521550093

N° edición

Categorías

Astronomía, espacio y tiempo

The Lighter Side of Gravity (en Inglés)

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From the drop of an apple to the stately dance of the galaxies, gravity is omnipresent in the Cosmos. Even with its high profile, gravity is the most enigmatic of all the known basic forces in nature. The Lighter Side of Gravity presents a beautifully clear and completely nontechnical introduction to the phenomenon of this force in all its manifestations. Astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar begins with an historical background to the discovery of the law of gravitation by Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century. Using familiar analogies, interesting anecdotes, and numerous illustrations to get across subtle effects and difficult points to readers, he goes on to describe the general theory of relativity and some of its strange and unfamiliar ideas such as curved spacetime, the bending of light, and black holes. Since first publication in 1982 (W.H. Freeman), Dr. Narlikar has brought his book completely up to date and expanded it to include the discovery of gigantic gravitational lenses in space, the findings of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the detection of dark matter in galaxies, the investigation of the very early Universe, and other new ideas in cosmology. This lucid and stimulating book presents a clear approach to the intriguing phenomenon of gravity for everyone who has ever felt caught in its grip. Jayant Narlikar is the winner of many astronomical prizes and the author of Introduction to Cosmology (Cambridge University Press, 1993).