Black Holes
Black Holes
A Traveler's Guide
Pickover, Clifford A.
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
03/1998
224
Mole
Inglês
9780471197041
0471197041
15 a 20 dias
384
BLACK HOLES A TRAVELER'S GUIDE Clifford Pickover's inventive and entertaining excursion beyond the curves of space and time. "I've enjoyed Clifford Pickover's earlier books... now he has ventured into the exploration of black holes. All would-be tourists are strongly advised to read his traveler's guide. " -Arthur C. Clarke.
How to Calculate a Black Hole's Mass. The Black Hole's Event Horizon Circumference. Black-Hole Tidal Forces. A Black Hole's Gravitational Lens. A Black Hole's Gravitational Blueshift. Gravitational Time Dilation. Anatomical Dissection of Black Holes. Embedding Diagrams for Warped Space-Time. Gravitational Wave Recoil. Optical Appearance of a Collapsing Star. Gravitational Distension Near a Black Hole's Heart. Quantum Foam. Black-Hole Recreations. Mathematical Black Holes. Black Holes Evaporate. Wormholes, Cosmological Doughnuts, and Parallel Universes. Postscripts. Author's Musings. Smorgasbord for Computer Junkies. Notes. Further Reading. Index.
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BLACK HOLES A TRAVELER'S GUIDE Clifford Pickover's inventive and entertaining excursion beyond the curves of space and time. "I've enjoyed Clifford Pickover's earlier books... now he has ventured into the exploration of black holes. All would-be tourists are strongly advised to read his traveler's guide. " -Arthur C. Clarke.
How to Calculate a Black Hole's Mass. The Black Hole's Event Horizon Circumference. Black-Hole Tidal Forces. A Black Hole's Gravitational Lens. A Black Hole's Gravitational Blueshift. Gravitational Time Dilation. Anatomical Dissection of Black Holes. Embedding Diagrams for Warped Space-Time. Gravitational Wave Recoil. Optical Appearance of a Collapsing Star. Gravitational Distension Near a Black Hole's Heart. Quantum Foam. Black-Hole Recreations. Mathematical Black Holes. Black Holes Evaporate. Wormholes, Cosmological Doughnuts, and Parallel Universes. Postscripts. Author's Musings. Smorgasbord for Computer Junkies. Notes. Further Reading. Index.
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