Gravitation

Elektromagnetismus und Gravitation scheinen zwei vollkommen unterschiedliche Wechselwirkungen zu sein: Während elektromagnetische Wechselwirkungen durch Felder beschrieben werden, …

Wahrheit - ein Wort von scheinbarer Klarheit, doch in Wirklichkeit ein Cham leon. Sie wird geformt, verdreht, inszeniert und verkauft. Nicht das Wahre setzt sich durch, sondern …

Einstein's general theory of relativity -- currently our best theory of gravity -- is important not only to specialists, but to a much wider group of physicists. This short …

The discovery of the ?rst case of superluminal radio jets in our galaxy in 1994 from the bright and peculiar X-ray source GRS 1915+105 has opened the way to a major shift in the …

This book is a treasured documentation of the talks given at the meeting authors have organized. Gordon Semenoff has left a legacy of influence in the theoretical physics community …

Einstein's general theory of relativity is introduced in this advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level textbook. Topics include special relativity, in the formalism of …

This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century. The focus is on the conditions and consequences of Einstein's pathbreaking …

Beginning with an overview of the theory of black holes by the editor, this book presents a collection of ten chapters by leading physicists dealing with the variety of quantum …

This book is a concise primer on galactic radio astronomy for undergraduate and graduate students, and provides wide coverage of galactic astronomy and astrophysics such as the …

The aim of State of the Universe 2007 (and subsequent volumes issued annually) is to provide an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be …