Einstein s miraculous year five papers that changed the face of p hysics
La gran ilusion: las grandes obras de albert einstein
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 25/06/1998
- Plaza de edición: PRINCETON 1998
- ISBN: 9780691059389
- Encuadernación: Tapa dura
- Editorial: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Nº de páginas: 198
Black holes and time warps: einstein s outrageous legacy
After 1905, Einstein's miraculous year, physics would never be the same again. In those twelve months, Einstein shattered many cherished scientific beliefs with five extraordinary papers that would establish him as the world's leading physicist. This book brings those papers together in an accessible format. The best-known papers are the two that founded special relativity: "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" and "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content?" In the former, Einstein showed that absolute time had to be replaced by a new absolute: the speed of light. In the second, he asserted the equivalence of mass and energy, which would lead to the famous formula "E = mc2,"
The book also includes "On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light," in which Einstein challenged the wave theory of light, suggesting that light could also be regarded as a collection of particles. This helped to open the door to a whole new world--that of quantum physics. For ideas in this paper, he won the Nobel Prize in 1921.
Black holes and time warps: einstein s outrageous legacy (edición en inglés)
