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Gravity’s Century : From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes / Ron Cowen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674239272
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.11 23
LOC classification:
  • QC173.6 .C36 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Genesis -- 2. From Turmoil to Triumph -- 3. Eddington on a Mission -- 4. Expanding the Universe -- 5. Black Holes and Testing General Relativity -- 6. Quantum Gravity -- 7. Hearing Black Holes -- 8. Imaging Black Holes -- Source Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Ron Cowen offers a sweeping account of the century of experimentation that has consistently confirmed Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He shows how we got from Eddington’s pivotal observations of the 1919 eclipse to the Event Horizon Telescope, aimed at starlight wrapping around the black hole at our galaxy’s center.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674239272

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Genesis -- 2. From Turmoil to Triumph -- 3. Eddington on a Mission -- 4. Expanding the Universe -- 5. Black Holes and Testing General Relativity -- 6. Quantum Gravity -- 7. Hearing Black Holes -- 8. Imaging Black Holes -- Source Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Ron Cowen offers a sweeping account of the century of experimentation that has consistently confirmed Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He shows how we got from Eddington’s pivotal observations of the 1919 eclipse to the Event Horizon Telescope, aimed at starlight wrapping around the black hole at our galaxy’s center.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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