Fritzsch offers readers the opportunity to listen in on a meeting of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and a present-day physicist. While he introduces the theory of relativity, Fritzsch teaches its sources, its workings, and the ways it has revolutionized our view of the physical world. An Equation That Changed the World dramatizes the importance of relativity, for the human race, and the survival of our planet. "Fritzsch could not give the modern reader a more memorable introduction to the personalities and science of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein unless somehow he could find the keys to H. G. Wells' time machine. . . . Many readers will applaud Fritzsch for this lively but profoundly insightful book." —Booklist, starred review "[Fritzsch] has dreamed up a dialogue between the two great physicists, helped along by a fictional modern physicist. . . . The conversation builds up to an explanation of E=mc2, and on the way illuminates the important points where Newtonian and Einsteinian theory diverge." —David Lindley, New York Times Book Review

An Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity

Science & Math

FRITZSCH, HARALD

History & Philosophy

University of Chicago Press

The internationally renowned physicist Harald Fritzsch deftly explains the meaning and far-flung implications of the general theory of relativity and other mysteries of modern physics by presenting an imaginary conversation among Newton, Einstein, and a fictitious contemporary particle physicist named Adrian Haller. In this entertaining and involving account of relativity, Newton serves as the skeptic and asks the questions a modern reader might ask. Einstein himself does the explaining, while Haller explains the new developments that have occurred since the general theory was proposed.

The Curvature of Spacetime

Physics

Columbia University Press

The internationally renowned physicist Harald Fritzsch deftly explains the meaning and far-flung implications of the general theory of relativity and other mysteries of modern physics by presenting an imaginary conversation among Newton, Einstein, and a fictitious contemporary particle physicist named Adrian Haller―the same device Fritzsch employed to great acclaim in his earlier book An Equation That Changed the World, which focused on the special theory of relativity. Einstein's theory of gravitation, his general theory of relativity, touches on basic questions of our existence. Matter, according to Einstein, has no existence independent of space and time. It is even capable of bending the structure of space and changing the course of time―it introduces a "curvature." Gravity emerges not as an actual physical force but as a consequence of space-time geometry. Even the apple that drops from the tree follows the curvature of time and space. In this entertaining and involving account of relativity, Newton serves as the skeptic and asks the questions a modern reader might ask. Einstein himself does the explaining, while Haller explains the new developments that have occurred since the general theory was proposed. The result is an intellectual roller-coaster ride in which concepts that have entered the vernacular become clear for the first time: the Big Bang, "black holes," elementary particles, and much more.

The Curvature of Spacetime: Newton, Einstein, and Gravitation

One of the world's leading physicists provides an authoritative, comprehensible account, for the general reader, of modern cosmology, covering all recent advances in our knowledge of the universe's origins, evolution, present composition, and probable end

Creation Of Matter

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Basic Books

Astronomy & Space Science

Since 1970, a major revolution has occurred in physics. Tiny particles with peculiar characteristics - quarks - have proven to be the principal constituents of matter and the active part of the core of the atom. This elementary particle is being researched in the European Atom Core Centre (Euratom) CERN in Geneva. This jargon-free book looks at this theory and the current investigations into its properties.

Quarks: the stuff of matter

Allen Lane.

Murray Gell-Mann, Physics Nobel Prize Laureate in 1969 &nbsp;is known for his theoretical work on elementary particle physics and the introduction of quarks and together with H. Fritzsch the "Quantum Chromodynamics". Based on four sections the Editor gives an overview on the work of Gell-Mann and his contributions to various aspects of the physics, related to quarks. His most important and influential papers were selected and reprinted so that the reader easily can check the original work of Gell-Mann.

Murray Gell-Mann and the Physics of Quarks (Classic Texts in the Sciences)

Birkhauser

Vom Urknall zum Zerfall: Die Welt zwischen Anfang und Ende

R.Piper & Co. Verlag

Die Geheimnisse des Mikrokosmos aufzudecken, hat die Physiker seit Jahrhunderten fasziniert. Doch obwohl in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten viele interessante Entdeckungen gemacht wurden, bleiben noch Fragen offen, die Harald Fritzsch in diesem Buch von der physikalischen und mathematischen Seite beleuchtet:- Haben die Physiker mit der Standardtheorie der Elementarteilchenphysik schon eine exakte Beschreibung der Teilchenwelt gefunden?- Gibt es wirklich eine „Große Vereinigung“ aller fundamentalen Kräfte?- Und sind die Leptonen, (wie das Elektron), oder die Bausteine der Hadronen, (die Quarks), vielleicht gar nicht wirklich punktförmig, sondern kleine eindimensionale Objekte, die man als „Strings“ bezeichnet?Dieses Buch setzt mathematische Vorbildung voraus und versteht sich als Überblick über die modernen Grundlagen der Quantenfeldtheorie und als Diskussionsbeitrag. Somit eignet sich das Werk insbesondere auch als Überblick und Wiederholung für Physiker. Harald Fritzsch ist bereits als Autor populärwissenschaftlicher Bücher bekannt. Sein Buch "Quarks", das in München 1980 erschien, wurde in mehr als 20 Sprachen übersetzt.Der AutorProf. Harald Fritzsch (* 10. Februar 1943 in Zwickau) ist ein theoretischer Physiker, der vor allem wichtige Beiträge zur Theorie der Quarks, zur Entwicklung der Quantenchromodynamik und zur Großen Vereinheitlichung des Standardmodells der Elementarteilchen geleistet hat.

Quantenfeldtheorie ─ Wie man beschreibt, was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält (German Edition)

Reference

Springer Spektrum

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An Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity

An Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity

The Curvature of Spacetime

The Curvature of Spacetime: Newton, Einstein, and Gravitation

Creation Of Matter

Creation Of Matter

Quarks: the stuff of matter

Murray Gell-Mann and the Physics of Quarks (Classic Texts in the Sciences)

Vom Urknall zum Zerfall: Die Welt zwischen Anfang und Ende

Quantenfeldtheorie ─ Wie man beschreibt, was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält (German Edition)