Black Holes

A Traveler's Guide

Clifford A. Pickover (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

1996
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-471-12580-8 (ISBN)

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Black holes are the much publicized 'vacuum cleaners' of space that have such a strong gravitational pull that they suck in everything that comes too near to them, and from which nothing can escape. Even light rays are unable to pass through them which is why they appear black. Black holes are not solid objects, they are areas in space of extremely high gravity. Astrophysicists have recently theorized that black holes may actually serve as tunnels in space through which - if we could travel through them - we could enter other universes that exist parallel to our own. Clifford Pickover creates two fictional "Scientists of the Future" who travel to a black hole and perform a series of experiments designed to reveal all of the intriguing properties of black holes, such as experiments to see how close an object can get to a black hole without being sucked in, to show what would happen to an object that did get sucked in, and to see whether it would be possible to travel through a black hole. This introduction to the remarkable physics of black holes explains exactly what they are, at a level accessible to the popular science audience.

CLIFFORD A. PICKOVER, Ph.D., is the author of numerous popular science and mathematics books including Keys to Infinity, Chaos in Wonderland, and Mazes for the Mind. He is also the lead author of the "Brain Boggler" column in Discover magazine. He is a researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, and his work in computer science has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post, Wired, The Christian Science Monitor, Omni, and Science News. For his work in computer graphics, he received first prize in the 1990 Beauty of Physics Competition.

How to Calculate a Black Hole's Mass; The Black Hole's Event Horizon Circumference; Black-Hole Tidal Forces; A Black Hole's Gravitational Lens; A Black Hole's Gravitational Blueshift; Gravitational Time Dilation; Anatomical Dissection of Black Holes; Embedding Diagrams for Warped Space-Time; Gravitational Wave Recoil; Optical Appearance of a Collapsing Star; Gravitational Distension Near a Black Hole's Heart; Quantum Foam; Black-Hole Recreations; Mathematical Black Holes; Black Holes Evaporate; Wormholes, Cosmological Doughnuts, and Parallel Universes; Postscripts; Author's Musings; Smorgasbord for Computer Junkies; Notes; Further Reading; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.4.1996
Zusatzinfo	Ill.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 242 mm
Gewicht	539 g
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-471-12580-6 / 0471125806
ISBN-13	978-0-471-12580-8 / 9780471125808
Zustand	Neuware