Einstein's Universe: A Guide to the Theory of Relativity (Penguin science) - Softcover

Calder, Nigel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140135162 ISBN 13: 9780140135169

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

The author assesses Einstein's vision and discusses such questions as how a black hole can keep you young and why a falling person feels no force of gravity. From the author of Spaceship Earth and Violent Universe.

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Review:

A valuable contribution to the de-mystification of relativity. ("Nature") Calder's gift for simplifying the complex has rarely been better demonstrated. ("San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle")

About the Author:

Nigel Calder served his apprenticeship as a science writer on the original staff of the magazine New Scientist, and became its editor, 1962-66. Since then he has worked as an independent author and TV scriptwriter. He won the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for his work for the BBC in a long succession of 'science specials', with accompanying books. Examples are Violent Universe, Restless Earth and The Comet is Coming! The original version of Einstein's Universe accompanied a BBC-WGBH documentary with the same title, scripted by Calder and featuring leading scientists together with the actor Peter Ustinov. Calder continues to report from the frontiers of research, and his most recent book is a comprehensive guide to modern science, called Magic Universe (2003). It was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize for Science Books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140135162
• ISBN 13: 9780140135169
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256