Author: John R. Gribbin
Publisher: Doubleday (1983)
ISBN: 038529266X
Category: Science & Technology / Astronomy
Synopsis:
A modern astronomer's view of the Universe we inhabit-a universe of violence, bent space, distorted time, a shrinking sun, and spacewarps
This story of space, time, and gravity looks at the implications for the Universe of Einstein's theory of relativity now revealed to astronomers by their latest observations.
Einstein taught that gravity bends space, and that given enough gravity-a dense concentration of matter-space can be bent back on itself to form the ultimate bottomless pit, a black hole.
In the past decade astronomers have found the Universe to be a violent place, populated by exploding galaxies and superdense stars that emit radiation in the form of X rays and radio pulses. Einstein's theories-the theories of spacewarps-explain all these phenomena.
With gravity as its central theme, Spacewarps begins with an up-to-date discussion of black holes, those superdense regions of space so closed in on themselves by gravity that not even light can escape.
Here the distortion of space-time is most dramatically evident, and the resulting contortions are associated with vast outpourings of energy, a source of power that civilization may one day tap.
Notes:
Bibliography: p. 196-198. Includes index.
Tags: Cosmology | Science/Mathematics | Astrophysics | Space and time | Universe
Pages: 224
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Fine ( Book condition rating information)
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