Gravity: From Falling Apples to Supermassive Black Holes 2nd Edition

Gravity: From Falling Apples to Supermassive Black Holes 2nd Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192845283,0192845284,9780192659972, 0192659979

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0192659979
• ISBN-13: 9780192659972
• Author: Nicholas Mee

Gravity: From Falling Apples to Supermassive Black Holes is written in a captivating historical style with stories about the researchers of the past and present that illuminate many key ideas in astronomy and physics. The historical material leads from discussions of the early cosmologies to the great breakthroughs of Tycho and Kepler. We then consider Galileo’s contributions to astronomy and mechanics, and the significance of Jeremiah Horrocks’s ideas to the Newtonian revolution that would follow. Newton’s theories brought about a new scientific age and his description of gravity was unrivalled for over two centuries until it was superseded by Einstein’s description in terms of curved spacetime. The outlandish predictions of Einstein’s theory have been confirmed again and again, including black holes and gravitational waves. Finally, we move on to more speculative ideas including Hawking radiation and primordial black holes and attempts to find a quantum theory of gravity.

Table contents:

1 The Cosmic Puzzle
2 The Secret of the Universe
3 The Magic Spyglass
4 Voyaging through Strange Seas of Thought
5 The Great Ocean of Truth
6 Let’s Do the Time Warp Again!
7 A Brief History of Black Holes
8 Ripples in the Fabric of Things
9 Across the Universe

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