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100 Years Of Relativity
World Scientific Publishing Company 2005; US$ 135.00Thanks to Einstein's relativity theories, our notions of space and time underwent profound revisions about a 100 years ago. The resulting interplay between geometry and physics has dominated all of fundamental physics since then. This volume contains contributions from leading researchers, worldwide, who have thought deeply about the nature and consequences... more...
Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 109.99Explains the technical issues of general relativity theory and discusses how these issues bear upon philosophical problems about the nature of space and time, causality, and laws of nature. This book provides an overview of the technical literature as well as analytical commentary on its philosophical significance. more...
Breaking the Time Barrier
Pocket Books 2005; US$ 19.95IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.... Once widely considered an impossibility--the stuff of science fiction novels--time travel may finally be achieved in the twenty-first century. In Breaking the Time Barrier, bestselling author Jenny Randles reveals the nature of recent, breakthrough experiments that are turning this fantasy into reality. The... more...
Defending Einstein
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 38.00Offers an insight into the development of scientific philosophy and the role of the philosopher. more...
Die Beschleunigungsfalle oder der Triumph der Schildkröte
Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag für Wirtschaft Steuern Recht GmbH 1998; US$ 27.13Hauptbeschreibung Dieses Lesebuch befasst sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven mit dem Phänomen "Zeit". Der von den Autoren gespannte Bogen reicht dabei von philosophischen, kunsthistorischen, betriebs- und volkswirtschaftlichen Aspekten bis hin zur Einbeziehung von Betrachtungen aus der Verkehrspolitik und Physik. In der nunmehr 3. Auflage wird... more...
Die Spezielle Relativitätstheorie
Springer 2013; US$ 84.99Die Spezielle Relativitätstheorie steht und fällt mit der universellen Konstanz der Lichtgeschwindigkeit. Darauf gründet die Einstein-Minkowski-Axiomatik, die wegen ihrer grundsätzlichen Bedeutung in keinem Lehrbuch zur Theoretischen Physik fehlen darf. Hier soll außerdem auf eine zweite, unabhängige, aber vollkommen äquivalente... more...
Discovering Relativity for Yourself
Cambridge University Press 1981; US$ 46.00Discovering Relativity for yourself explains Einstein's Theory of Relativity to readers who are daunted by the standard mathematical approach to that profound theory. more...
Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 39.95Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. A great deal has changed since 1905 when Einstein proposed his Special Theory of Relativity, and this book... more...
Einstein 1905-2005
Springer 2006; US$ 99.99The Poincare Seminar is held twice a year at the Institute Henri Poincare in Paris. The goal of this seminar is to provide information about general topics of great interest in physics. Both the theoretical and experimental results are covered, with some historical background. This volume is devoted to Einstein's 1905 papers and their legacy. more...
The Einstein Theory of Relativity
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99Relativity: The Special and General Theory is an introduction to Einstein's space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, first published in December 1916. Special and General relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of gravitation, respectively. Einstein's theories shocked the world with their counterintuitive... more...









