Relativity physics

The proceedings of the First Iberian Meeting on Gravity give a broad view of the most recent research on gravity.

Each of this book's 32 essays discusses a chosen topic, at a level that is generally within that of a four-year degree course in Physics.

A bold revision of one of the most successful theories of all time: Einstein's general theory of relativity.

The proceedings of the 2nd LeCosPA International Symposium, 'Everything about Gravity', collects 78 papers contributed by the symposium's Plenary Session and Parallel Session speakers.

The purpose of this book is to give a systematic pedagogical exposition of the quantitative analysis of Wilson lines and gauge-invariant correlation functions in quantum chromodynamics.

On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment.

1905 is probably the best-known year in physics, since it was the year of the discovery of the special theory of relativity.

A self-contained presentation of the tools of Lorentzian geometry necessary to access recent works in mathematical relativity.

Universally recognized as bringing about a revolutionary transformation of the notions of space, time, and motion in physics, Einstein's theory of gravitation, known as "e;general relativity,"e; was also a defining event for 20th century philosophy of science.

Introducing gravitational-wave data analysis, this is an ideal starting point for researchers entering the field, and researchers currently analyzing data.

While the theory of special relativity is often associated with the idea of traveling faster than light, this book shows that in all these cases subtle forces of nature conspire to prevent these motions being harnessed to send signals faster than the speed of light.

The construction of large interferometers for gravitational wave detection is now in progress in Europe and in the United States.

The book attempts to provide an introduction to quantum field theory emphasizing conceptual issues frequently neglected in more "e;utilitarian"e; treatments of the subject.

The Marcel Grossmann Meetings seek to further the development of the foundations and applications of Einstein's general relativity by promoting theoretical understanding in the relevant fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics and to direct future technological, observational, and experimental efforts.

This popular book on special relativity was first published in Moscow back in 1961 under the Russian title ' zN ?

With applications in quantum field theory, elementary particle physics and general relativity, this two-volume work studies invariance of differential operators under Lie algebras, quantum groups, superalgebras including infinite-dimensional cases, Schrodinger algebras, applications to holography.

Lavishly illustrated, fascinating and accessible introduction to Einstein''s relativity for general readers, school students and undergraduates.

Essential mathematical insights into one of the most important and challenging open problems in general relativity-the stability of black holesOne of the major outstanding questions about black holes is whether they remain stable when subject to small perturbations.

This book is dedicated to Einstein's personal and scientific relationships with Italy, which began as early as adolescence and continued over various stages of his life.

This book describes the basic concepts of supersymmetric theories.

The proceedings of the 1998 Spanish relativity meeting in honour of Lluis Bel contain several topics which Bel and his collaborators have worked on, namely the superenergy tensor and frames of reference.

This book is divided into two parts.

A truly Galilean-class volume, this book introduces a new method in theory formation, completing the tools of epistemology.

Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions.

This book presents fundamentals, equations, and methods of solutions of relativistic kinetic theory, with applications in astrophysics and cosmology.

This volume contains up-to-date accounts of many of the latest developments in gravitation, cosmology and astrophysics, including papers on black hole radiation, empirical tests of gravitational theory, quantum gravity, classical and quantum cosmology, singularities, computational methods, and a number of other topics.

Presents the particle dynamics relevant to general relativity, and the field dynamics necessary to understand the theory, to advanced undergraduates.

A paperback edition of a classic text for graduates and researchers in relativity, theoretical physics, astrophysics and mathematics.

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

What is time?

This is a book about the meaning of time, what it is, when it has started, how it flows and where to.

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.

This volume focuses on the recent developments of general relativity.

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

One of the main unanswered question of modern Physics is "e;How does gravity behave at small scales?

An essential resource for learning about general relativity and much more, from four leading expertsImportant and useful to every student of relativity, this book is a unique collection of some 475 problems--with solutions--in the fields of special and general relativity, gravitation, relativistic astrophysics, and cosmology.

Starting off from noneuclidean geometries, apart from the method of Einstein's equations, this book derives and describes the phenomena of gravitation and diffraction.

Almost from its inception, Einstein's general theory of relativity was known to sanction spacetime models harboring singularities.

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

The natural generalization of the quantum-mechanical N-particle wave function to relativistic space-time is a function of N space-time points, and thus of N time variables.

The book is intended to serve as lecture material for courses on relativity at undergraduate level.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides - 'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom HollandThe long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the ancient Greek world into decades of war.

In Minkowski-Space the space-time of special relativity is discussed on the basis of fundamental results of space-time theory.

Einstein's theory of general relativity is one of the pillars of modern physics and it is our standard framework for describing gravitational fields and the spacetime structure.