God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (699 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000056HDU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Recommended, but Not Strongly 3.5 Stars David Milliern I recommend this book, but not strongly, for a number of reasons. I'll do the pros before moving on to the cons. First, I really don't know of a book that covers exactly what this book does, and does it in a way that is accessible to the broadest possible audience. In fact, I don't know any historical treatments of the development of Eins. Great reading ab7337 I enjoyed the reading of the book and it is what I was expecting. Somebody recommended it to me and I would recommend it to you.. A first rate book by a first rate mind. A first rate book by a first rate mind.Versatile in many subject matters, he is adept at bringing to life prose in a manner of concurrent,stimulating fact based character development rarely seen in a non fiction book.His Jewish background and his father,s life experience is also a big factor.A must read on Albert Einstein and his contempo
Fortunately, though, the mathematics underlying the constant had become important tools for physicists; observations in 1997 and 1998 by Saul Perlmutter, Neta Bahcall, and others showed that the universe will continue expanding indefinitely and sent theorists back to the drawing board to revise their equations. The great genius referred to it as his "greatest blunder," but recent events in the world of astrophysics have brought the prodigal term back into the fold as an important part of his field equation. Aczel shows Einstein's aesthetic troubles with the cosmological constant, which preceded theoretical and experimental problems leading to its abandonment. Integrating relativity with gravitation was no easy task (even for Einstein), but the author deftly steers the reader away from the sticky stuff and focuses attention on concepts of importance. Aczel is a powerful storyteller, and makes no secret of his admiration for Einstein; much o
Awesome in scope, thrilling in detail, God's Equation is storytelling at its finest.. Drawing on newly discovered letters of Einstein--many translated here for the first time--years of research, and interviews with prominent mathematicians, cosmologists, physicists, and astronomers, Aczel takes us on a fascinating journey into "the strange geometry of space-time," and into the mind of a genius. In January 1998, astronomers found evidence that the cosmos is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science