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Sto caricando le informazioni... Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loveddi Marcia Bartusiak
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Een zeer goed leesbare beschrijving van de geschiedenis van zwarte gaten. Aan de hand van de ontwikkelingen in deze tak van wetenschap wordt het fenomeen van zwarte gaten en de relatie met de algemene relativiteitstheorie helder uitgelegd. Ik vraag me alleen af of mensen die niet zo goed thuis zijn in de natuurkunde het verhaal kunnen volgen. Zelden zo´n goed populair wetenschappelijk boek gelezen. Black Hole is a short but engrossing history of science about the discovery of black holes. Bartusiak writers with passion and a sense of narrative mystery, while retaining factual accuracy. I would read more by her. It's for a general audience on a subject as esoteric and complex as they come, but she manages to hold interest. Black holes seem almost normal today but they were once thought so exotic as to be impossible. She restores that past sense of impossibility and incredulity, before black holes became accepted. An easy-reading recounting of the relevant contributions of the likes of Michell, Einstein, Schwarzchild, Chandrasekhar, Oppenheimer, Wheeler, Schmidt, Kerr, Bekenstein, and Hawking. As the author says, it's a history of the idea of black holes, not a discussion of current issues such as "firewalls" (which are, however, mentioned at the end). nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes-not even light-seemed to confound all logic. This engrossing book tells the story of the fierce black hole debates and the contributions of Einstein, Hawking, and other leading thinkers who completely altered our view of the universe. Renowned science writer Marcia Bartusiak shows how the black hole helped revive Einstein's greatest achievement, the general theory of relativity, after decades during which it had been pushed into the shadows. Not until astronomers discovered such surprising new phenomena as neutron stars and black holes did the once-sedate universe transform into an Einsteinian cosmos, filled with sources of titanic energy that can be understood only in the light of relativity. Celebrating the hundredth anniversary of general relativity, Black Hole uncovers how the black hole really got its name and recounts the scientists' frustrating, exhilarating, and at times humorous battles over the acceptance of one of history's most dazzling ideas. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Easy to read and understand.
Chock full of interesting people, theories, times, and information.
Seeing how it all comes together, one theory to the next, was fascinating. ( )