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Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics

Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics

Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
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Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics Hard cover - 2009

by Melia, Fulvio

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Chic2009: University of Chicago Press. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 138 pages.
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  • Title Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
  • Author Melia, Fulvio
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 150
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chic2009
  • Publication date 2009-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 153119
  • ISBN 9780226519517 / 0226519511
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Black holes (Astronomy) - Mathematical models, Kerr, R. P
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008044006
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.11
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues PHYSICS

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From the publisher

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein's mathematical code--represented by six interlocking equations--was one of the most difficult to crack in all of science. That is, until a twenty-nine-year-old Cambridge graduate solved the great riddle in 1963. Roy Kerr's solution emerged coincidentally with the discovery of black holes that same year and provided fertile testing ground--at long last--for general relativity. Today, scientists routinely cite the Kerr solution, but even among specialists, few know the story of how Kerr cracked Einstein's code.

Fulvio Melia here offers an eyewitness account of the events leading up to Kerr's great discovery. Cracking the Einstein Code vividly describes how luminaries such as Karl Schwarzschild, David Hilbert, and Emmy Noether set the stage for the Kerr solution; how Kerr came to make his breakthrough; and how scientists such as Roger Penrose, Kip Thorne, and Stephen Hawking used the accomplishment to refine and expand modern astronomy and physics. Today more than 300 million supermassive black holes are suspected of anchoring their host galaxies across the cosmos, and the Kerr solution is what astronomers and astrophysicists use to describe much of their behavior.

By unmasking the history behind the search for a real world solution to Einstein's field equations, Melia offers a first-hand account of an important but untold story. Sometimes dramatic, often exhilarating, but always attuned to the human element, Cracking the Einstein Code is ultimately a showcase of how important science gets done.

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Citations

  • Choice, 04/01/2010, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 09/25/2009, Page 19

About the author

Fulvio Melia is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona and author of numerous books, including, most recently, The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole.

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