Black hole: How an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved

237 sayfa. 14x21 cm
BARTUSIAK, MARCIA
Black hole: How an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
xii, 237 s. 21x14 cm.
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For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes—not even light—seemed to confound all logic. This engrossing book tells the story of the fierce black hole debates and the contributions of Einstein and Hawking and other leading thinkers who completely altered our view of the universe.
Renowned science writer Marcia Bartusiak shows how the black hole helped revive Einstein’s greatest achievement, the general theory of relativity, after decades during which it had been pushed into the shadows. Not until astronomers discovered such surprising new phenomena as neutron stars an

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