One Hundred Years Of General Relativity: From Genesis And Empirical Foundations To Gravitational Waves, Cosmology And Quantum Gravity (In 2 Volumes)

Buch | Hardcover

1356 Seiten

2017
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-4635-12-7 (ISBN)

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The aim of the book is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. The book focuses on five aspects of the theory: This unique book provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development, its important theoretical consequences, gravitational wave detection and applications to astrophysics and cosmology.

Genesis, Solutions and Energy:Genesis of Special Relativity (Valerie Messager & Christophe Letellier); Genesis of General Relativity (Wei-Tou Ni); Schwarzschild and Kerr Solutions (Christian Heinicke & Friederich W Hehl); Energy and Hamiltonian (Jiang-Mei Chen, James Nester & Roh-Suan Tung); Empirical Foundations:Equivalence Principles: Its Empirical Foundations and Relation to Metrology (Wei-Tou Ni); Cosmic Polarization Rotation: An Astrophysical Test of Fundamental Physics (Sperello di Serego Alighieri); Clock Comparison Based on Laser Ranging Technologies (Etienne Samain); Solar-System Tests of Relativistic Gravity (Wei-Tou Ni); Pulsars Tests of Relativistic Gravity (R N Manchester); Gravitational Waves:GW: Classification, Sources and Methods of Detection (K Kuroda, R N Manchester, W-T Ni); Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) for Searching GWs (R N Manchester); Present Status of Ground GW Detectors (K Kuroda); GW Detection in Space (Wei-Tou Ni); Cosmology:Cosmic Microwave Background (M Bucher); Cosmic Structure (Marc Davis); Gravitational Lensing in Cosmology (Toshifumi Futamase); Cosmic Inflation (K Sato & J Yokoyama); Quantum Gravity:Quantum Gravity in Curved Spacetime (S P Kim); Perturbative Quantum Gravity Comes of Age (R Woodard); Black Hole Thermodynamics (S Carlip); Loop Quantum Gravity (Dah-Wei Chiou); String Theory (Henry Tye & David Chernoff);

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.7.2017
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
ISBN-10	981-4635-12-X / 981463512X
ISBN-13	978-981-4635-12-7 / 9789814635127
Zustand	Neuware