Gravity’s Century
Author | : Ron Cowen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2019-05-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674974968 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674974964 |
Rating | : 4/5 (964 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Gravity’s Century by : Ron Cowen
Download or read book Gravity’s Century written by Ron Cowen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron Cowen offers a sweeping account of the century of experimentation that has consistently confirmed Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He shows how we got from Eddington’s pivotal observations of the 1919 eclipse to the Event Horizon Telescope, aimed at starlight wrapping around the black hole at our galaxy’s center.