General relativistic dynamics extending Einstein's legacy throughout the universe /
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Language: | English |
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Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
World Scientific,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Essentials of special relativity
- Bondi's K-calculus approach to special relativity
- Essentials of general relativity
- Schwarzschild solution and its consequences
- Gravitational waves
- The normal scales of physics and the Planck scale
- General relativistic cosmology
- Motion of stars in the galaxy
- Clusters of galaxies
- Closed timelike curves and time machines
- The direction of physics research
- Summary and concluding commentary.