Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified - Hardcover

Using clear language and a conversational style, this book explores the ideas at the heart of Einstein's theory. Wolfson shows how these ideas led to such seeming absurdities as time travel, curved space, black holes, and new meanings for the idea of past and future. He illustrates how the principles underlying the theory of relativity gave us a new perspective on space and time, opened the door to questions about their nature. He leads his readers on an intellectual journey that explores how gravity works and discusses whether the universe is finite or infinite, and whether it might expand forever or eventually collapse forever in a "big crunch". These topics, at the forefront of physics, are all rooted in Einstein's sweeping profound and vision.