Black Holes & Time Warps
Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
Ranked #6 in Black Holes, Ranked #7 in General Relativity — see more rankings.
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... more
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Dan Hooper This book is just plain fun. I said before that if somebody asked me for a book to learn about relativity, I probably wouldn’t pick Einstein’s: I would pick Kip Thorne’s. (Source)
Sean M Carroll Kip Thorne’s book mostly focuses on space time. It is really the most modern exposition yet at a popular level of Einstein’s theory of relativity…So if you want to know what a wormhole is, and how time machines might work, this is the book for you. (Source)
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Black Holes & Time Warps is ranked in the following categories:
- #20 in Astronomy
- #17 in Astrophysics
- #21 in Cosmology
- #39 in Physics
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