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| Titre : | Einstein's Universe |
| Auteurs : | Nigel Calder, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | New York : The Viking press, 1979 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | ISBN 0-670-29076-9 |
| Format : | 154 p. / Couv. ill., non ill. / 23,3 cm |
| Note générale : | Table of Contents (p. 1) ; Index (p. 149) |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Langues originales: | Américain |
| Index. décimale : | Cosmologie (113) (Philosophie de la nature) |
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| Mots-clés: | Relativity, Physics, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Title, Universe |
| Résumé : |
"How should we celebrate Einstein's centenary?" When that question came from BBC Television and the American PBS network, I was in no doubt about my answer : "Let's make relativity plain." To do it properly, and in a modern way, required the direct consultation of some seventy physicists and astronomers in thirty institutions on both sides of the Atlantic.
Although it accompanies the television film of the same title, this book is separately conceived and written, to convey the ideas and experiments in printed words rather than with moving pictures. I am grateful to the BBC for the double challenge and for the facilities for extensive travels ; also for unwavering support for the project. The Television special Einstein's Universe, marking the centenary of Albert Einstein's birth, was made by BBC-TV as a coproduction with WGBH (Boston). Peter Ustinov introduced and narrated the programme, which was largely filmed at the McDonald Observatory, in Texas, with the cooperation of its director, Harlan Smith. |
| Note de contenu : | 1. Cosmic Whirlwind; 2. The Wasting Sun; 3. Energy of Creation; 4. The Ultimate; 5. Einstein's Clock; 6. Weightlessness; 7. Shells of TRime; 8. Directed Futures; 9. The Shifting Stars; 10. Tramlines in the Sky; 11. Waves of Gravity; 12. The Galileo Mystery; 13. Methuselah in a Spaceship; 14. The Universal Correction; 15. The Speed of Light; 16. Where Time Flies; 17. The Simple Universe; 18. A Choice of Histories; 19. Judging Fate; 20. Timeless Viewpoint; 21. Einstein's Successor. |
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