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Zusatztext We are a bit like the physicists of the early 20'th century who struggled with a crisis of sorts, in attempting to explain away the apparent inconsistency of the so-called "luminiferous aether" that couldn't be seen but seemed essential for light wave propagation. Of course it was special relativity that saved us from the so-called Fitzgerald contraction as an "epicycle" on Maxwell's theory. Today we struggle with a different, but perhaps too similar invisible substance called "dark matter." But now Bahram Mashhoon's "Nonlocal Gravity" develops some beautiful concepts that have the power to instill renewed confidence in Occam's Razor in the disheartened graduate students, researchers, and teachers of physics and astrophysics who haven't yet seen a light at the end of the dark matter tunnel. Informationen zum Autor Bahram Mashhoon has spent his academic career working on relativity and gravitation. This book is the culmination of his work at the University of Missouri in Columbia over the past thirty years. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University under the supervision of John A. Wheeler. As an undergraduate, he attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he was mentored in physics by Emilio G. Segrè. Born in Tehran, Mashhoon left Iran in 1966 to study physics in the US. Klappentext Relativity theory assumes locality, without accounting for the observer's past history. This book introduces nonlocality, or history dependence, into relativity theory. Inertia and gravitation are deeply tied, suggesting gravity may be nonlocal. The gravitational memory of past events must then be taken into account. Zusammenfassung Relativity theory assumes locality, without accounting for the observer's past history. This book introduces nonlocality, or history dependence, into relativity theory. Inertia and gravitation are deeply tied, suggesting gravity may be nonlocal. The gravitational memory of past events must then be taken into account. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Acceleration-Induced Nonlocality 3: Acceleration Kernel 4: Toward Nonlocal Gravitation 5: Extension of General Relativity 6: Field Equation of Nonlocal Gravity 7: Linearized Nonlocal Gravity 8: Nonlocal Gravity and Dark Matter 9: Linearized Gravitational Waves in Nonlocal Gravity 10: Nonlocal Newtonian Cosmology ...
