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Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
Kip Thorne: Black Holes and Time Warps

Ever ​since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them.

Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time.

Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of… (tovább)

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W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1995
624 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780393312768

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Kip Thorne: Black Holes and Time Warps Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

This book of science is for the reader who is very interested in the subject. The language is mostly scientific, technical and hard to follow for an average reader (there is some help with the glossary of physics concepts).

I liked the historical build of the book (although not always linear), and within it – lots of science, ideas. Naturally, we get to know many great scientists throughout many decades from different countries.

This book has a definite feeling that the writer, physicist himself is enthusiastic and deeply dedicated to his work. He gives a full narrative on the subject. The book consists of many photos, illustrations, figures, diagrams to make the comprehension easier.


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The Soviet Union had just barely emerged from the bloodiest, most devastating war in its history – a war in which Germany, the agressor, had killed 27 million Soviet people and had laid waste to their homeland – when Winston Churchill fired an early salvo of the cold war: In a 5 March 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri, Churchill warned the West about a Soviet threat and coined the phrase „iron curtain” to describe the boundaries that Stalin had established around his empire.

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Success was a product of joint, mutually interdependent efforts by six different communties of people. Each community played an essential role. Relativists deduced, using the laws of general relativity, that black holes must exist. Astrophysicists proposed the method of search and gave crucial guidance at several steps along the way. Observational astronomers identified HDE226868, the compation of Cyg X-1; they used periodically shifting spectral lines from it to weight Cyg X-1; and they made extensive other observations to firm up their estimate of its weight. Experimental physicists created the instruments and techniques that made possible the search for X-ray stars, and they carried out the search that idendified Cyg-1. Engineers and managers at NASA created the rockets and spacecraft that carried the X-ray detectors into Earth orbit.

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Well-tested laws of physics predict firmly that black holes exist. In our galaxy alone there may be millions, but their darkness hides them from the view.

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The political climate went from bad to horrid. In 1936 Stalin, having already killed 6 or 7 million peasants and kulaks (landowners) in his forced collectivization of agriculture, embarked on a several-year-long purge of the country's political and intellectual leadership, a purge now called the Great Terror. The purge included execution of almost all members of Lenin's original Politburo, and execution or forced disappearence, never to be seen again, of the top commanders of the Soviet army, fifty out of seventy-one members of the Central Committee of the Communist party, most of the ambassadors to foreign countries, and the prime ministers and chief officials fo the non-Russian Soviet Repuplics. At lower levels roughly 7 million people were arrested and imprisoned and 2,5 million died – half of them intellectuals, including a large number of scientists adn some entire research teams. Soviet biology, genetics, and agricultural science were destroyed.

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