Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00WL4QW78 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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This engrossing audiobook 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. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes - not even light - seemed to confound all logic. 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. Celebrating the 100th 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.. 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. For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe
Ashutosh S. Jogalekar said A good overview of the history and science of black holes. Black holes are unusual objects. They are now recognized as some of the most important cosmic laboratories for studying all kinds of physics phenomena, from general relativity to quantum mechanics. And yet as science writer Marcia Bartusiak describes in this book, their road to success has been paved with a lack of interest from their own pioneers and many haphazard detours.Bartusiak traces the conception of the idea of black holes to a Cambridge don named Joh Mitc. john steele said CLEAR AND CONCISE EXPLANATION OF BLACK HOLES. I am a Geophysicist/Astrophysicist and have followed Black Hole research for most of my life. Marcia's explanation was so clear and coherent that anybody can understand what the phenomenon of a Black Hole is. I learned very much from this book.. Very Good Read, but neglects all of the fascinating recent controversies. William D. Fusfield Like most of Marcia Bartusaiak's books on Astronomy etc. this work is vwey well written and a pleasure to read. I give it only four stars, however, since it doesn't treat the most interesting part of the story, namely the recent period after the discovery that black holes really and truly exist. Here the work of Stephen Hawikng and the subsequent presentation of various different models of what black holes might actually do, for example the current controversy over