The Sky at Einstein's Feet
(Sprache: Englisch)
Specifically traces the impact of Einstein's ideas on astronomy, including the way we interpret observations of stars and galaxies.
Includes comments from principals in important discoveries, illuminating the processes behind these results.
Presents...
Includes comments from principals in important discoveries, illuminating the processes behind these results.
Presents...
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Specifically traces the impact of Einstein's ideas on astronomy, including the way we interpret observations of stars and galaxies. Includes comments from principals in important discoveries, illuminating the processes behind these results.
Presents many applications of relativity that have not been shown in earlier popular-level books and illustrates how deeply physics permeates the way we interpret many astronomical phenomena.
Highlights light-travel delays in cosmic jets, using gravitational lensing to trace cosmic mass distribution.
Illustrations employ new and archival data from ground- and space-based observatories.
The insights of relativity have illuminated a century of astronomical discovery, often going beyond the phenomena that Einstein lived to see. This book shows, in nonmathematical ways, how deeply these ways of viewing the Universe have informed our interpretations of it, and how many of the amazing discoveries of these decades have made sense only as part of Einstein's universe.
The author brings together the ways in which we see the bizarre effects of relativity played out on a cosmic scale. None of this is particularly new to practicing astronomers, but much has yet to be seen outside technical journals. The presentation avoids mathematics (except for the most famous equation in all of physics!), and is designed to be accessible to the interested public. Gravitational lenses, the visible effects of light-travel delays, the search for black holes, the ways relativity in atomic nuclei makes stars shine, are all treated. In many cases, some of the principals are still alive and provided new commentary on the discoveries. Numerous illustrations are newly produced from data in the archives of such observatories as Hubble and Chandra.
The author brings together the ways in which we see the bizarre effects of relativity played out on a cosmic scale. None of this is particularly new to practicing astronomers, but much has yet to be seen outside technical journals. The presentation avoids mathematics (except for the most famous equation in all of physics!), and is designed to be accessible to the interested public. Gravitational lenses, the visible effects of light-travel delays, the search for black holes, the ways relativity in atomic nuclei makes stars shine, are all treated. In many cases, some of the principals are still alive and provided new commentary on the discoveries. Numerous illustrations are newly produced from data in the archives of such observatories as Hubble and Chandra.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Sky at Einstein's Feet “
- The Sky at Einstein's Feet- Bookkeeping at the speed of light
- Relativistic matter
- Gravitional deflection and lensing
- Through the gravitational telescope
- The stars themselves
- Extreme spacetime bending
- Relativity and Cosmology
- Beyond Einstein.
Autoren-Porträt von W. Keel
Bill Keel, the author of The Road to Galaxy Formation (Springer-Praxis 2002), has been involved in many areas of extragalactic astronomy, and for the last 18 years has worked at the University of Alabama. Of particular relevance to this book is his study of gravitational lensing since 1980, early calculations on microlensing of quasars, and an ongoing Hubble survey for gravitational lensing effects in silhouetted galaxies as a constraint on massive dark-matter candidates. His experience in serving on 16 NASA review committees for various space-astrophysics missions and higher-level programmatic issues has broadened his view of relativity in astronomy triggering the idea for this book.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: W. Keel
- 2006, 2006, 246 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 17 x 24,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer
- ISBN-10: 0387261303
- ISBN-13: 9780387261300
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.11.2005
Sprache:
Englisch
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