About this title: "One boggles at the thought of the stupendous work ...that has gone into the book. It deserves an honored place in what promises to be one of the great stages of advance in the physics of the cosmos." Contemporary Physics
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Date Published: 1973-09-15
ISBN-13:9780716703440ISBN:0716703440
Description: Good. Paperback. Red underlining and pencil margin notes throughout first third. Filament tape reinforcing extremities (protection not repair). Corners do have some wear but aren't wildly dog eared. Spine has a couple of creases. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W H Freeman & Co, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780716703440ISBN:0716703440
Description: Very Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Paperback, 1279 pp. Small spine tear, light cover, ffep wear, else text clean. Inscription plate on ffep from 3 authors. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780716703440ISBN:0716703440
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, California
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780716703440ISBN:0716703440
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 1279+pp. incl. index; SC blk. w/white; lg. fold btttm. ft. cover; slight rub w/clean, tight pgs. Textbook on gravitation physics (Einstein's "general relativity" or "geometrodynamics"). "It is the first textbook on the subject that uses throughout the modern formalism and notation of differntial geometry, and it is the firsy book to document in full the revolutionary techniques developed during the past decade to test the theory of general relativity ... read more
Description: Good. # Paperback: 1215 pages # Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Co Ltd (1 Jan 1973) # Language English # ISBN-10: 0716703440. Covers and spine are; clean, bright, square and tight, corner creases to covers, spine barely lined and very tidy. Owners name inside cover. Pages are; clean, bright, tight and unmarked. Tight and tidy copy, Good plus. We offer an unconditional refund from 30 days of receipt should this item fail to reach expectations. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W H FREEMAN & CO
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780716703440ISBN:0716703440
Description: New. Put as simply as possible, this is a book on Einstein's theory of gravity (general relativity). It is the first textbook on the subject that uses throughout the modern formalism and notation of differential geometry, and it is the first book to docum... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W H FREEMAN & CO
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780716703440ISBN:0716703440
Description: New. Put as simply as possible, this is a book on Einstein's theory of gravity (general relativity). It is the first textbook on the subject that uses throughout the modern formalism and notation of differential geometry, and it is the first book to docum... read more
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"Look. I don't want to whine or anything, but how come the evolutionary biologists get all the attention when the religious right express opinions on science? Why isn't there a massive campaign to make sure that books like this one get sold with a prominent sticker on the front saying "Gravitation's Just A Theory"? It is, you know. Most schoolchildren don't as much as get told that Intelligent Falling exists, let alone giving it equal air time. And, unless I'm greatly mistaken, there's hardly anyone even trying to address the problem.
It just seems so unfair. Evolution's been pretty solid for over a century now; scientists argue over the details, but that's all. Now look at gravitation. First, Einstein comes along in 1915 and completely turns Newton's theory upside down. (See! It's not called a theory for nothing!) There's no absolute space and time, as Newton thought; instead, matter and energy create the frame of reference around them. Black holes are just the extreme case.
But Einstein's theory also turns out to be quite shaky. He didn't think that the Universe was expanding, so he added a fudge factor, the so-called Cosmological Constant. Then, in the 30s, new measurements showed the Universe actually was expanding. Oops! Einstein takes out the Constant, calling it the greatest mistake of his career. However, the story's not over yet. In the 90s, still newer measurements reveal that the Universe is expanding too quickly. The Constant is put back in again, though now it's generally referred to as Dark Energy. A good bit of marketing there from the Gravitational Theorists.
Somewhere in the middle, young female astronomer Vera Rubin discovers that stars near the edges of galaxies have an orbital velocity that's way too high, if Gravitational Theory is correct. First, her male colleagues tell her she must have screwed up on her observations. (Lady scientists in the audience: does this story sound in any way familiar?) Feisty Vera stuck to her guns, until the experts were forced to admit they were wrong. Then most people decided that there had to be extra, invisible "Dark Matter" present, so that they could keep their Theory. It's still completely unclear what the Dark Matter is. I looked around the other day on Google Scholar and found a paper which tried to estimate the mass of the hypothetical "Dark Matter Particles". Using various clever arguments, the author showed that they should be more massive than electrons, but less massive than small stars. That's a spread of several dozen orders of magnitude, which I personally would have summarized as "we don't know". The paper was deemed interesting enough for publication in a scholarly journal.
And I'm not even going to start on the complete mess that's resulted from numerous failed attempts to reconcile General Relativity with quantum physics. People have been trying for nearly 80 years, and we still don't have anything plausible. Superstring Theory looked good for a while, but, if there were such a thing as Superstring stock, it would have crashed by now to a fraction of its peak valuation. Come on, Intelligent Design people! Why not focus your attention on a more promising target? And, on the principle of Knowing Your Enemy, start with this book. Get to the end of it, and I promise you'll be well prepared. I'm looking forward to watching the fight, and may the best Theory win!"
"This is high up on my list of favorite general relativity books, very possibly number one. The book is thick enough to make its own substantial dent in spacetime, but you'd look in vain for a wasted page. It offers two interwoven tracks: One holds your hand through a carefully detailed development of GR and related mathematics, covering all the points necessary for an understanding the later advanced, topical chapters. The other skims the waves, covering only what you need for a quick course in GR. Either track is both readable and thorough, sprinkled liberally with optional sections that offer more mathematical detail, and occasional sidebars on history, people, and other points of interest. For anyone who wants to learn GR, it is impossible to recommend this book to highly."
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