The Special Theory of Relativity (Advanced Book Classics) - Hardcover

Bohm, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201094487 ISBN 13: 9780201094480

Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co, 1988

Synopsis

Based on his famous final year undergraduate lectures on theoretical physics at Birkbeck College, Bohm presents the theory of relativity as a unified whole, making clear the reasons which led to its adoption and explaining its basic meaning. With clarity and grace, he also reveals the limited truth of some of the "common sense" assumptions which make it difficult for us to appreciate its full implications.
With a new foreword by Basil Hiley, a close colleague of David Bohm's, The Special Theory of Relativity is an indispensable addition to the work of one of greatest physicists and thinkers of the twentieth century.

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Review

'Bohm presents a highly original view of what it means to look at the world with new eyes.' – Journal of Consciousness Studies

About the Author

David Bohm (1917–1992). A close colleague of Einstein’s at Princeton University after World War II, Bohm would himself go on to become one of the great physicists of the twentieth century. Persecuted for his radical politics during the era of the McCarthy hearings, he left the US in 1952 to teach first in Brazil and then in the UK.

Popular Science/Physics/Philosophy

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201094487
• ISBN 13: 9780201094480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236