Gravitys Century - From Einsteins Eclipse to Images of Black Holes

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.

About the author

Ron Cowen has written for National Geographic, Nature, the New York Times, Science, Science News, Scientific American, and U.S. News & World Report, and is a guest commentator on NPR’s Science Friday. He has twice received both the American Institute of Physics’s Science Writing Award and the American Astronomical Society (Solar Physics Division)’s Popular Writing Award.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ron Cowen, Science Writer Ron Cowen
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780674974968
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97496-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Geschichte, Relativitätstheorie, Astrophysik, Gravitation, Schwerkraft, Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Populärwissenschaftliche Werke, popular science, Astronomie, Raum und Zeit, Astronomie und Raumfahrt: Sachbuch, SCIENCE / History, Astrophysics, Gravity, Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Naturwissenschaften), Physik / Astrophysik, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, SCIENCE / Gravity, NATURE / Sky Observation, History of Science, Astronomy, space & time, Popular astronomy & space, Popular astronomy and space, Relativity physics, Astronomy, space and time, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, SCIENCE / Physics / Gravity