This brilliantly written book unlocks the astounding implications of Einstein's revolutionary theories on the nature of science, time and motion. It far surpasses any previous explanation of Relativity for laymen.
(The Planck temperature, as you might guess, is the temperature at which particles have characteristic energy of the order of the Planck energy.) Physicists have not the foggiest idea of what happened during the era of dark ignorance.
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...
Einstein's universe: a guide to the theory of relativity : [the layman's guide]
An updated edition of a classic of popular science. Leading science writer Nigel Calder, author of Magic Cosmos, wrote Einstein's Universe to mark the centenary of Einstein's birth in 1979.