Description: About this productProduct IdentifiersPublisherFreeman & Company, W&HISBN-100716760347ISBN-139780716760344eBay Product ID (ePID)949599Product Key FeaturesBook TitleJourney Into Gravity and SpacetimeNumber of Pages258 PagesLanguageEnglishTopicTime, Astronomy, GravityPublication Year1999FeaturesRevisedIllustratorYesGenreScienceAuthorJohn Archibald WheelerFormatTrade PaperbackDimensionsItem Height0.6 inItem Weight22 OzItem Length9.3 inItem Width8.5 inAdditional Product FeaturesIntended AudienceTradeDewey Edition21Dewey Decimal531.1/4Edition DescriptionRevised editionSynopsisAn introduction to Einstein's geometric theory of gravity and its implications for the relationship between mass and spacetime. Arguing that gravity closely connects the world around us and the innermost workings of the universe, the book applies Einstein's theory to many different phenomena., Gravity is not a force acting at a distance. It is mass gripping spacetime, telling it how to curve, and spacetime gripping mass, telling it how to move. According to preeminent physicist John Archibald Wheeler, gravity makes the closest connection between the world we see around us and the inner-most workings of the universe.In this imaginative volume, Wheeler explores gravity and spacetime by applying Einstein's battle-tested theory to both familiar and exotic phomomena - everything from flying tennis balls, to hurling gravity waves from crashing stars, the motion of the planets, and the collapse of a star into a black hole. It's a provocative, revealing, fully engaging scientific journey led by a frontline participant in the most important work in physics in the last 50 years.LC Classification NumberQC178
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Title: A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime ("Scientific American" Libr
Book Title: Journey Into Gravity and Spacetime
Number of Pages: 258 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Freeman & Company, W&H
Publication Year: 1999
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Time, Astronomy, Gravity
Illustrator: Yes
Features: Revised
Genre: Science
Item Weight: 22 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: John Archibald Wheeler
Item Width: 8.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
