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" I do
not see any reason to assume that ... the principle of general
relativity is restricted to gravitation and that the rest of physics
can be dealt with separately on the basis of special relativity ... I
do not think that such an attitude, although historically
understandable, can be objectively justified ... In other words, I do
not believe that it is justifiable to ask: what would physics look like
without gravitation? " |
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Relativity without Special Relativity
Relativity
in Curved Spacetime
tries to find a more straightforward way to present the truly
fundamental ideas of relativity theory. Instead of trying to teach the
old divisions and special-case exceptions, it asks, What do we know?
What are the big ideas? What seems to work? And what doesn't? It argues
that the principles of general relativity make Einstein's earlier
"special" theory redundant, and that retaining the special theory makes
the theory unnecessarily complicated and counter-intuitive. Preserving
special relativity makes modern relativity theory more
complicated
and less reliable than it should have been.
Aimed
at the general reader, and with more than 200 illustrations and
diagrams, the book covers subjects as diverse as cosmology, the speed
of light, logic and psychology, E=mc˛, wormholes and warpdrives,
in an attempt to answer the question : What would
relativity look
like without special
relativity?
| 394 printed pages: pp. i-xvi,
1-378. Colour cover, 234×156mm, ~200 b&w illustrations
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