Gravity

This book on high-energy cosmic rays deals in its first part with the standard model of cosmic rays, describing how they are born in a wide range of cosmic processes, how they are accelerated and how they interact with matter, magnetic fields and radiation during their journey across the Galaxy.

This volume presents a selection of 434 letters from and to the Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928), covering the period from 1883 until a few months before his death in February 1928.

Presents a detailed analysis of modified theories of gravity, discussing their development, cosmological and astrophysical implications and outstanding challenges.

This book is aimed at students making the transition from a first course on general relativity to a specialized subfield.

The Cargese Workshop Random Surfaces and Quantum Gravity was held from May 27 to June 2, 1990.

This book presents Special Relativity in a language accessible to students while avoiding the burdens of geometry, tensor calculus, space-time symmetries, and the introduction of four vectors.

This book is a collection of contributions presented at the 16th annual international symposium "e;Frontiers of Fundamental Physics"e; (FFP16), supported by Istanbul University.

Introducing the theoretical ideas, observational methods and results in dark energy, this textbook is a thorough introduction to dark energy for graduate courses.

'The book concentrates attention on extended alternative theories of gravity and on the best astrophysical laboratories to probe the strong gravity-field regime: black holes, pulsars and neutron stars .

Our understanding of the physical universe underwent a revolution in the early twentieth century - evolving from the classical physics of Newton, Galileo, and Maxwell to the modern physics of relativity and quantum mechanics.

This book is a unique selection of work by world-class experts exploring the latest developments in Hamiltonian partial differential equations and their applications.

Cosmology and astroparticle physics have seen an avalanche of discoveries in the past decade (IceCube - high energy neutrinos, LIGO - gravitational waves, Fermi- gamma-ray telescope, Xenon-1T - dark matter detection, PLANCK- cosmic microwave radiation, EHT picture of black hole, SDSS -galaxy surveys), all of which require a multidisciplinary background for analyzing the phenomena.

This fourth volume in the series Physics and Evolution of the Earth's Interior, provides a comprehensive review of the geophysical and geodetical aspects related to gravity and low-frequency geodynamics.

To create the exotic materials and technologies needed to make stargates and warp drives is the holy grail of advanced propulsion.

This book presents gravitational lensing as an essential tool in astrophysics for tracking dark matter at all scales in the Universe.

A comprehensive introduction to the methods of, and physics describable by, classical field theory.

This monograph presents the geoscientific context arising in decorrelative gravitational exploration to determine the mass density distribution inside the Earth.

This book discusses some of the open questions addressed by researchers in general relativity.

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One of the mathematical challenges of modern physics lies in the development of new tools to efficiently describe different branches of physics within one mathematical framework.

Some 350 years ago, in his Discorsi e Dimostrationi Matematici [Galilei], Galileo Galilei discussed whether or not light propagated with a finite though very high velocity, or with infinite speed, instantaneously.

The dark matter problem is one of the most fundamental and profoundly difficult to solve problems in the history of science.

This book presents the superfield description of various supersymmetric field theory models in three- and four-dimensional space-times.

This book offers a presentation of the special theory of relativity that is mathematically rigorous and yet spells out in considerable detail the physical significance of the mathematics.

A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her lifeClaudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life.

The aim of the State of the Universe annuals is to provide an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be published every September.

A comprehensive introduction to the methods of, and physics describable by, classical field theory.

Devised at the beginning of the 20th century by french physicists Charles Fabry and Alfred Perot, the Fabry-Perot optical cavity is perhaps the most deceptively simple setup in optics, and today a key resource in many areas of science and technology.

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Starbursts are important features of early galaxy evolution.

Applications of quantum field theoretical methods to gravitational physics, both in the semiclassical and the full quantum frameworks, require a careful formulation of the fundamental basis of quantum theory, with special attention to such important issues as renormalization, quantum theory of gauge theories, and especially effective action formalism.

This book presents a collection of chapters in which researchers who have worked in the field of gravity for years reveal their visions of the origin of gravity.

This text provides a quantitative introduction to general relativity for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

This is a fascinating account of two great scientists of the 20th century: Einstein and Heisenberg, discoverers, respectively, of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

This primer is a collection of notes based on lectures that were originally given at IIT Madras (India) and at IFT Madrid (Spain).

This book provides an in-depth and accessible description of special relativity and quantum mechanics which together form the foundation of 21st century physics.

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Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker's "e;Aufbau der Physik"e;, first published in 1985, was intended as an overview of his lifelong concern: an understanding of the unity of physics.

Relativity Made Relatively Easy presents an extensive study of Special Relativity and a gentle (but exact) introduction to General Relativity for undergraduate students of physics.

Peter Gabriel Bergmann started his work on general relativity in 1936 when he moved from Prague to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

The main goal of this work is to revisit the proof of the global stability of Minkowski space by D.

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear colleagues, Welcome in Bodrum to the NASion Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter!

Einstein's general theory of relativity is introduced in this advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level textbook.

This volume offers an integrated understanding of how the theory of general relativity gained momentum after Einstein had formulated it in 1915.

With a focus on modified gravity this book presents a review of the recent developments in the fields of gravity and cosmology, presenting the state of the art, high-lighting the open problems, and outlining the directions of future research.