Relativity physics Books

Book Synopsis'Outstanding Academic Title for 2014' by CHOICEEinstein Relatively Simple brings together for the first time an exceptionally clear explanation of both special and general relativity. It is for people who always wanted to understand Einstein's ideas but never thought they could.Told with humor, enthusiasm, and rare clarity, this entertaining book reveals how a former high school drop-out revolutionized our understanding of space and time. From E=mc2 and everyday time travel to black holes and the big bang, Einstein Relatively Simple takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on a mind-boggling journey through the depths of Einstein's universe. Along the way, we track Einstein through the perils and triumphs of his life — follow his thinking, his logic, and his insights — and chronicle the audacity, imagination, and sheer genius of the man recognized as the greatest scientist of the modern era.In Part I on special relativity we learn how time slows and space shrinks with motion, and how mass and energy are equivalent. Part II on general relativity reveals a cosmos where black holes trap light and stop time, where wormholes form gravitational time machines, where space itself is continually expanding, and where some 13.7 billion years ago our universe was born in the ultimate cosmic event — the Big Bang.Table of ContentsSpecial Relativity: The Newton - Maxwell Conflict; Einstein's Light and Relativity Postulates; How Time Slows and Space Shrinks with Motion; Simultaneity; The Equivalence of Mass and Energy Per E=mc2; The Unification of Space and Time in the Spacetime Interval; The Twins Paradox; General Relativity: The Equivalence Principle; Gravitational Time Dilation; Ehrenfest's Paradox; The Warping of Time and Space; Time Travel; Local and Global Gravity; Spacetime Curvature; The Einstein Equation; Black Holes; Gravitational Lensing; Gravity Waves; Frame Dragging; Wormholes; The Expansion of the Universe; The Big Bang; Cosmic Inflation; Dark Matter; Dark Energy; The Future of the Universe.

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Book Synopsis'Outstanding Academic Title for 2014' by CHOICEEinstein Relatively Simple brings together for the first time an exceptionally clear explanation of both special and general relativity. It is for people who always wanted to understand Einstein's ideas but never thought they could.Told with humor, enthusiasm, and rare clarity, this entertaining book reveals how a former high school drop-out revolutionized our understanding of space and time. From E=mc2 and everyday time travel to black holes and the big bang, Einstein Relatively Simple takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on a mind-boggling journey through the depths of Einstein's universe. Along the way, we track Einstein through the perils and triumphs of his life — follow his thinking, his logic, and his insights — and chronicle the audacity, imagination, and sheer genius of the man recognized as the greatest scientist of the modern era.In Part I on special relativity we learn how time slows and space shrinks with motion, and how mass and energy are equivalent. Part II on general relativity reveals a cosmos where black holes trap light and stop time, where wormholes form gravitational time machines, where space itself is continually expanding, and where some 13.7 billion years ago our universe was born in the ultimate cosmic event — the Big Bang.Table of ContentsSpecial Relativity: The Newton - Maxwell Conflict; Einstein's Light and Relativity Postulates; How Time Slows and Space Shrinks with Motion; Simultaneity; The Equivalence of Mass and Energy Per E=mc2; The Unification of Space and Time in the Spacetime Interval; The Twins Paradox; General Relativity: The Equivalence Principle; Gravitational Time Dilation; Ehrenfest's Paradox; The Warping of Time and Space; Time Travel; Local and Global Gravity; Spacetime Curvature; The Einstein Equation; Black Holes; Gravitational Lensing; Gravity Waves; Frame Dragging; Wormholes; The Expansion of the Universe; The Big Bang; Cosmic Inflation; Dark Matter; Dark Energy; The Future of the Universe.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains the Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, held at Indiana University in Bloomington on June 17-21, 2013. The Meeting focused on tests of these fundamental symmetries and on related theoretical issues, including scenarios for possible violations.Topics covered at the meeting include searches for CPT and Lorentz violations involving: accelerator and collider experiments; atomic, nuclear, and particle decays; birefringence, dispersion, and anisotropy in cosmological sources; clock-comparison measurements; electromagnetic resonant cavities and lasers; tests of the equivalence principle; gauge and Higgs particles; high-energy astrophysical observations; laboratory tests of gravity; matter interferometry; neutrino oscillations and propagation; oscillations and decays of neutral mesons; particle-antiparticle comparisons; post-newtonian gravity in the solar system and beyond; second- and third-generation particles; space-based missions; spectroscopy of hydrogen and antihydrogen; spin-polarized matter; and time-of-flight measurements. Theoretical discussions include physical effects at the level of the Standard Model, General Relativity, and beyond; the possible origins and mechanisms for Lorentz and CPT violations; classical and quantum issues in field theory, particle physics, gravity, and string theory; and mathematical foundations including Finsler geometry.

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Book SynopsisThe Marcel Grossmann Meetings seek to further the development of the foundations and applications of Einstein's general relativity by promoting theoretical understanding in the relevant fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics and to direct future technological, observational, and experimental efforts. The meetings discuss recent developments in classical and quantum aspects of gravity, and in cosmology and relativistic astrophysics, with major emphasis on mathematical foundations and physical predictions, having the main objective of gathering scientists from diverse backgrounds for deepening our understanding of spacetime structure and reviewing the current state of the art in the theory, observations and experiments pertinent to relativistic gravitation. The range of topics is broad, going from the more abstract classical theory, quantum gravity, branes and strings, to more concrete relativistic astrophysics observations and modeling.The three volumes of the proceedings of MG13 give a broad view of all aspects of gravitational physics and astrophysics, from mathematical issues to recent observations and experiments. The scientific program of the meeting included 33 morning plenary talks during 6 days, and 75 parallel sessions over 4 afternoons. Volume A contains plenary and review talks ranging from the mathematical foundations of classical and quantum gravitational theories including recent developments in string/brane theories, to precision tests of general relativity including progress towards the detection of gravitational waves, and from supernova cosmology to relativistic astrophysics including such topics as gamma ray bursts, black hole physics both in our galaxy and in active galactic nuclei in other galaxies, and neutron star and pulsar astrophysics. Volumes B and C include parallel sessions which touch on dark matter, neutrinos, X-ray sources, astrophysical black holes, neutron stars, binary systems, radiative transfer, accretion disks, quasors, gamma ray bursts, supernovas, alternative gravitational theories, perturbations of collapsed objects, analog models, black hole thermodynamics, numerical relativity, gravitational lensing, large scale structure, observational cosmology, early universe models and cosmic microwave background anisotropies, inhomogeneous cosmology, inflation, global structure, singularities, chaos, Einstein-Maxwell systems, wormholes, exact solutions of Einstein's equations, gravitational waves, gravitational wave detectors and data analysis, precision gravitational measurements, quantum gravity and loop quantum gravity, quantum cosmology, strings and branes, self-gravitating systems, gamma ray astronomy, and cosmic rays and the history of general relativity.Table of ContentsOn the Cosmological Singularity (Vladimir Belinski); GRB Afterglow Discovery with Bepposax: Its Story 15 Years Later (Filippo Frontera); Rotation, Convection, and Core Collapse (David Arnett); Spacetime Singularities: Recent Developments (Claes Uggla); Hidden Symmetries: from BKL to Kac-Moody (Philipp Fleig & Hermann Nicolai); Recent Developments in Mathematical GR (Sergiu Klainerman); Higher Dimensional Black Holes (Harvey S Reall); Causal Dynamical Triangulations and the Search for a Theory of Quantum Gravity (Jan Ambjorn & Andrzej Gorlich); On Quantum Gravity, Asymptotic Safety, and Paramagnetic Dominance (Andreas Nink & Martin Reuter); Perturbative Quantum Gravity as a Double Copy of Gauge Theory and Implications for UV Properties (Bern Zvi); Type IA Supernova Cosmology: Past and Future (Ariel Goobar); The Accelerating Universe: A Nobel Surprise (Robert Kirshner); Strong, Weak, Electromagnetic and Gravitational Interactions in Neutron Stars (Jorge Rueda & Remo Ruffini); Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy Using Ground-Based Interferometers (David H Reitze & David H Shoemaker); Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Emission (Bing Zhang); Black Holes, Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts (Remo Ruffini); Precisions Tests of Theories of Gravity Using Pulsars (Michael Kramer); The Planck Mission: Recent Results, Cosmological and Fundamental Physics Perspectives (Nazzareno Mandolesi, Carlo Burigana, Alessandro Gruppuso & Paolo Natoli); Unavoidable CMB Spectral Features and Black Body Photosphere of our Universe (Rashid Sunyaev & Rishi Khatri); Observation of a New Boson at a Mass of 125 GeV with the CMS Experiment at the LHC (Chiara Mariotti); Search for the Standard Model Higgs with the ATLAS Detector (Domizia Orestano); From the Tian Shan to the Tian Kong: Personal Reflections on Fang Lizhi (Remo Ruffini); Marcel Grossmann and His Contribution to the General Theory of Relativity (Tilman Sauer);

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Book SynopsisEinstein's Special Relativity (E-SR) is the cornerstone of physics. De Sitter invariant SR (dS/AdS-SR) is a natural extension of E-SR, hence it relates to the foundation of physics. This book provides a description to dS/AdS-SR in terms of Lagrangian-Hamiltonian formulation associated with spacetime metric of inertial reference frames.One of the outstanding features of the book is as follows: All discussions on SR are in the inertial reference frames. This is a requirement due to the first principle of SR theory. The descriptions on dS/AdS-SR in this book satisfy this principle. For the curved spacetime in dS/AdS-SR theory, it is highly non-trivial.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction; Einstein's Special Relativity; De Sitter Invariant Special Relativity; dS/AdS Relativistic Quantum Mechanics; dS/AdS General Relativity; Hydrogen Atom in dS/AdS-Special Relativity; Superluminal Neutrino in dS/AdS-Special Relativity; Non-relativistic Limit of dS/AdS-Special Relativity;

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Book SynopsisThis volume is to facilitate undergraduate and graduate students in theory of relativity and help them in their studies of High Energy Physics and Cosmology. The presentation has been kept simple and sufficient details have been provided in order to facilitate the understanding of the subject. The problems have also been selected to clarify the presentation and solutions of selected problems are given for better understanding of the contents.Table of ContentsSpecial Theory of Relativity: Galilean Transformations; Special Theory of Relativity and Lorentz Transformations; Relativistic Mechanics; Lorentz Transformations (General Case); Four Velocity: Minkowski Force; Covariant Form of Electrodynamics; Spin; Space-Time Groups and Their Representations; General Theory of Relativity: Riemannian Geometry; Curved Space-time: Metric Tensor, Tensor Analysis, Tensor Densities, Affine Connection; Geodesic, Equivalence Principle, Gravitational Redshift; Curvature Tensor, Riemannian Tensor, Einstein's Field Equations; Solution of Einstein's Equations: The Schwarzschild Metric: The Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) Metric; Problems;

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development, its important theoretical consequences, gravitational wave detection and applications to astrophysics and cosmology. The series focuses on five aspects of the theory: The first three topics are covered in Volume 1 and the remaining two are covered in Volume 2. While this is a two-volume title, it is designed so that each volume can be a standalone reference volume for the related topic.Table of ContentsVolume 1: Genesis, Solutions and Energy: The Genesis of the Restricted Relativity (Valerie Messager & Christophe Letellier); Genesis of General Relativity: A Concise Exposition (Wei-Tou Ni); Schwarzschild and Kerr Solutions of Einstein's Field Equation: An Introduction (Christian Heinicke & Friederich W Hehl); Gravitational Energy: A Covariant Hamiltonian-Gauge Theory Perspective (Jiang-Mei Chen, James Nester & Roh-Suan Tung); Empirical Foundations: Equivalence Principles, Spacetime Structure and the Cosmic Connection (Wei-Tou Ni); Cosmic Polarization Rotation: An Astrophysical Test of Fundamental Physics (Sperello di Serego Alighieri); Clock Comparison Based on Laser Ranging Technologies (Etienne Samain); Solar-System Tests of Relativistic Gravity (Wei-Tou Ni); Pulsars and Gravity (R N Manchester); Gravitational Waves: GW: Classification, Sources and Methods of Detection (K Kuroda, & W-T Ni); Introduction to Ground Based Gravitational Wave Detectors (K Kuroda); GW Detection in Space (Wei-Tou Ni); Volume 2: Cosmology: Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy (Martin Bucher); Cosmic Structure (Marc Davis); Gravitational Lensing in Cosmology (Toshifumi Futamase); Cosmic Inflation (K Sato & J Yokoyama); Inflation, String Theory and Cosmic Strings (David Chernoff & Henry Tye); Quantum Gravity: Quantum Gravity in Curved Spacetime (S P Kim); Perturbative Quantum Gravity Comes of Age (R Woodard); Black Hole Thermodynamics (S Carlip); Loop Quantum Gravity (Dah-Wei Chiou);

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Book SynopsisThis book is composed of two parts: First part describes basics in numerical relativity, that is, the formulations and methods for a solution of Einstein's equation and general relativistic matter field equations. This part will be helpful for beginners of numerical relativity who would like to understand the content of numerical relativity and its background. The second part focuses on the application of numerical relativity. A wide variety of scientific numerical results are introduced focusing in particular on the merger of binary neutron stars and black holes.Table of ContentsPreliminaries for Numerical Relativity; Formulation for Initial-Value Problems of General Relativity; Numerical Methods for a Solution of Einstein's Evolution Equation; Matter Equations in General Relativity; Formulations for Initial Data, Equilibrium, and Quasi-Equilibrium; Extracting Gravitational Waves; Finding Black Holes; Coalescence of Binary Compact Objects; Gravitational Collapse to a Black Hole; Non-Radial Instability and Magnetohydrodynamics Instability; Higher-Dimensional Simulations; Conclusion; Appendices: Killing Vector and Frobenius' Theorem; Numerical Relativity in Spherical Symmetry; Decomposition by Spherical Harmonics; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulations of General Relativity; Solutions of Riemann Problems in Special Relativistic Hydrodynamics; Landau-Lifshitz Pseudo Tensor; Laws of Black Hole and Apparent Horizon; Post-Newtonian Results for Coalescing Compact Binaries;

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Book SynopsisThis book is composed of two parts: First part describes basics in numerical relativity, that is, the formulations and methods for a solution of Einstein's equation and general relativistic matter field equations. This part will be helpful for beginners of numerical relativity who would like to understand the content of numerical relativity and its background. The second part focuses on the application of numerical relativity. A wide variety of scientific numerical results are introduced focusing in particular on the merger of binary neutron stars and black holes.Table of ContentsPreliminaries for Numerical Relativity; Formulation for Initial-Value Problems of General Relativity; Numerical Methods for a Solution of Einstein's Evolution Equation; Matter Equations in General Relativity; Formulations for Initial Data, Equilibrium, and Quasi-Equilibrium; Extracting Gravitational Waves; Finding Black Holes; Coalescence of Binary Compact Objects; Gravitational Collapse to a Black Hole; Non-Radial Instability and Magnetohydrodynamics Instability; Higher-Dimensional Simulations; Conclusion; Appendices: Killing Vector and Frobenius' Theorem; Numerical Relativity in Spherical Symmetry; Decomposition by Spherical Harmonics; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulations of General Relativity; Solutions of Riemann Problems in Special Relativistic Hydrodynamics; Landau-Lifshitz Pseudo Tensor; Laws of Black Hole and Apparent Horizon; Post-Newtonian Results for Coalescing Compact Binaries;

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