Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)
By Kip S. Thorne.
Description
Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them. Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and spac...
ISBN(s)
0393312763, 8601401184171, 9780393312768
