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Are we on the verge of solving the riddle of creation using Einstein's "greatest blunder"?In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem , takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery.In January 1998, astronomers found evidence that the cosmos is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. The way we perceive the universe was changed forever. The most compelling theory cosmologists could find to explain this phenomenon was Einstein's cosmological constant, a theory he conceived--and rejected---over eighty years ago.Drawing on newly discovered letters of Einstein--many translated here for the first time--years of research, and interviews with prominent mathematicians, cosmologists, physicists, and astronomers, Aczel takes us on a fascinating journey into "the strange geometry of space-time," and into the mind of a genius. Here the unthinkable becomes an infinite, ever-expanding, ever-accelerating universe whose only absolute is the speed of light.Awesome in scope, thrilling in detail, God's Equation is storytelling at its finest.
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God's Equation, Amir D. Aczel
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- Année de publication
- 2000
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- Titre
- God's Equation
- Sous-titre
- Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Amir D. Aczel
- Publié
- 2000
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 255
- ISBN10
- 0385334850
- ISBN13
- 9780385334853
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Science, Mathématiques, Biographies, Physique, Espace
- Description
- Are we on the verge of solving the riddle of creation using Einstein's "greatest blunder"?In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem , takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery.In January 1998, astronomers found evidence that the cosmos is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. The way we perceive the universe was changed forever. The most compelling theory cosmologists could find to explain this phenomenon was Einstein's cosmological constant, a theory he conceived--and rejected---over eighty years ago.Drawing on newly discovered letters of Einstein--many translated here for the first time--years of research, and interviews with prominent mathematicians, cosmologists, physicists, and astronomers, Aczel takes us on a fascinating journey into "the strange geometry of space-time," and into the mind of a genius. Here the unthinkable becomes an infinite, ever-expanding, ever-accelerating universe whose only absolute is the speed of light.Awesome in scope, thrilling in detail, God's Equation is storytelling at its finest.