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The Universe of General Relativity

Publication year: 2005

ISBN: 978-0-8176-4454-3

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Topics discussed include the prehistory of special relativity, early attempts at a relativistic theory of gravitation, the beginnings of general relativity, the problem of motion in the context of relativity, conservation laws, the axiomatization of relativity, classical and contemporary cosmology, gravitation and electromagnetism, quantum gravity, and relativity as seen through the eyes of the public and renowned relativists.


Subject: Physics and Astronomy, Cosmology, Gravity, History of Mathematics, Relativity, Special relativity, Universe, axiomatization, general relativity, science