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Medicine of Light: A Shaman's Journey Through Mystic Space-Time

2 reviews
Amarananda Bhairavan

Nicolas-Hays, 2006

With all Modesty - a True Master in an Ancient Matrilinear Tradtition
This book ("by popular request" really) contains the teachings in response to the kind of questions one asks only after one stops being afraid of the answers. Amarananda Bhairavan is the conduit for his aunt Preema's unadulterated wisdom. There is no fashionable or slick feel-good stuff, nothing one could tweak into a foundation for a (pseudo-) spiritual empire. I guess, when you read ...

A Traveler's Guide To Spacetime

4 reviews
Thomas A Moore

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 1995

One of the most easily understandable books in physics!!
Not only did Thomas Moore write a great book, he is also an excellent teacher. It is relativity made easy. Be sure to look for the Six Ideas that Shaped Physics if you really want to learn general physics. Moore emphasizes the models of physics, not the equations generate dby these models.

Physics of the Solar System: Dynamics and Evolution, Space Physics, and Spacetime Structure (Astrophysics and ...
B. Bertotti, Paolo Farinella, ...

Springer, 2003

This volume covers most areas in the physics of the solar system, with special emphasis on gravitational dynamics; its gist is the rational, in particular mathematical, understanding of the main processes at work. Special stress is given to the variety of objects in the planetary system and their long-term evolution. The unique character of this book is its breadth and depth, which aims at bringing the reader to the threshold of original ...

Space, Time, and Spacetime

4 reviews
Lawrence Sklar

University of California Press, 1977

Thorough, if somewhat dry, look at the issues of space-time
This book has won philosophical awards, and with good reason- it is a valuable resource for anyone looking to learn about the philosophical issues surrounding space and time. In fact, this is the book that is usually read for classes on the topic. A few of the central topics he discusses are the philosophy of geometry, the reality of space-time, and the arrow of time. Some of these topics ...

Spacetime Physics

33 reviews
Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler

W. H. Freeman, 1992

Geometry of spacetime!
The aim of this book is to explain to one the essential of the theory of special relativity: The GEOMETRY of spacetime! Keyword: GEOMETRY. Those who give this book one or two stars because they think this book is too wordy or does not retain enough rigor simply do not see the simplicity and elegance in the authors' presentation. Yes. You don't see complicated equations in this book because the ...

Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension

19 reviews
Rudolf Rucker

Dover Publications, 1977

See what's outside the box
Over two millenia ago, Euclid wrote his masterpiece Elements and stated in his fifth postulate that only one perpendicular line could pass through any one point adjacent to another line. One hundred fifty years ago, it was proven that yet another geometry could be described by asserting that more than one parallel line could pass through such a point. Building on these ideas, Rucker briefly ...

The Future of Spacetime

8 reviews
Stephen William Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Is time-travel possible?
----------------------------------------------------------- This slim volume consists of six essays, based on talks presented at the Kipfest [note 1] on the occasion of Kip Thorne's sixtieth birthday. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Physics at Caltech is best known to the general public for his 1988 wormhole "time machine" proposal, and indeed much of the book is taken up exploring the ...

General Relativity (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series)
N.M.J. Woodhouse

Springer, 2006

Based on a course given at Oxford over many years, this book is a short and concise exposition of the central ideas of general relativity. Although the original audience was made up of mathematics students, the focus is on the chain of reasoning that leads to the relativistic theory from the analysis of distance and time measurements in the presence of gravity, rather than on the underlying mathematical structure. The geometric ideas - which are ...

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, And Space-Time

23 reviews
Richard P. Feynman

Basic Books, 2005

Harder than 6 easy pieces, but not extremely hard.
The title of this book probably scares off many readers, but it need not do so. This book is a sequel to Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces". Both books consist of lectures taken from Feynman's three volume lecture series, which was used for a two-year introductory physics course at Cal Tech. "Six Not So Easy Pieces" is not as easy as "Six Easy Pieces". The latter is accessible to most high school ...

Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity

11 reviews
Sean Carroll

Benjamin Cummings, 2003

Great Book But Won't Get You To The Promised Land
My comments come with a few caveats. 1. This is my fourth GR book. 2. I'm not hardcore into physics. I'm not a physic grad and I'm reading GR for fun. I have a decent graduate math background but I've been corrupted with 10+ years in working in various roles software engineering, electronics engineering and marketing. 3. I assume that since you're considering buying this book, you're goal ...

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

5 reviews
Stephen W. Hawking, G. F. R. Ellis, ...

Cambridge University Press, 1975

A classic in mathematical general relativity
This book is now a classic and is written by two giants in mathematics and physics. It wil be used for many years to come and is certainly one of the most widely quoted in the subject. The authors begin the book by a discussion of the role of gravity in physics and its role as determining the causal structure of the universe. They introduce the idea of a closed trapped surface, setting the ...

Principles of Space-Time Adaptive Processing (Iet Radar, Sonar, Navigation and Avionics) (Iet Radar, Sonar, ...
Richard Klemm

Institution for Engineering and Technology, 2006

This is a systematic introduction to MTI (moving target indication) system design for use in the fields of earth observation, surveillance and reconnaisance, with particular regard to the suppression of clutter returns. Coverage includes signal processing, clutter models, array processinig theory, adapted linear arrays, non-linear antenna configurations, circular arrays, space-frequency techniques, and clutter suppression jamming conditions. ...

Space-Time and Beyond

10 reviews
Bob Toben, Fred Alan Wolfe

Bantam, 1983

The interpenetration of the universes has begun....
This seemingly light and trivial book covers some extremely heavy and profound concepts. In fact, it is amazing how well a few pictures, diagrams, and cartoons can clarify concepts better than chapters of dense text from more "scholarly" sources. Of course, if the pictures don't do it for you, there is the excellent commentary by Fred Allen Wolf, as well as, an extensive bibliography for further ...

Flat and Curved Space-Times

1 review
George F. R. Ellis, R. M. Williams, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

An excellent and crystal clear presentation of relativity.
This is one of the best introductions to the subject that I've read. The explanations are transparent with ample illustrations and examples. There are also many exercises to help the reader enforce what he has learned. There is also a very helpful annoted bibliography (actually the Afterword) which guides the reader to more advanced reading. It is really a shame that this book is not quoted ...

World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute versus Relational Theories of Space and Time (Bradford Books)
John Earman

The MIT Press, 1992

Earman introduces and clarifies the historical and philosophical development of the clash between Newton's absolute conception of space and Leibniz's relative one. He separates the issues and provides new perspectives on absolute versus rational accounts of motion and substantive versus rational accounts of the ontology of spacetime, revitalizing the connection of the debate to contemporary science. John Earman is Professor of History and ...

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation: From Basics to Adaptive Trellis-Coded, Turbo-Equalised and Space-Time Coded ...
Lajos Hanzo, Soon Xin Ng, ...

Wiley-IEEE Press, 2004

Motivated by the rapid evolution of the consecutive generations of wireless communication systems this volume continues to provide an overview of the majority of single- and multi-carrier QAM techniques. Now fully revised and updated, with more than 300 pages of new material, this new edition presents the wide range of recent developments in the field and places particular emphasis on the family of coded modulation aided OFDM and CDMA ...

MIMO Wireless Communications: From Real-World Propagation to Space-Time Code Design

3 reviews
Claude Oestges, Bruno Clerckx

Academic Press, 2007

A very clear book; deals with MIMO channel models in an intuitive way
There are quite a few books out there on MIMO systems. Naturally, this book contains most of the "traditional" MIMO material, including capacity derivations, space-time codes, and MIMO-OFDM. Yet, in my opinion, it is distinctive in two ways. First of all, from a technical point of view, this is one of the few books that covers realistic MIMO channel models in detail, and ties in those models with ...

Physical Relativity: Space-Time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective

1 review
Harvey R. Brown

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

it could be better
The author of Physical Relativity offers a historical and critical discussion of the special and general relativity ideas. Although one appreciates the author's insight, the book in the end fails to impress. In particular, the book is useless to those who do not know relativity theory since a clear and direct discussion of relativity is nowhere to be found. The book disappoints even ...

Relativity in Curved Spacetime: Life without special relativity

2 reviews
Eric Baird

Chocolate Tree Books, 2007

This book is excellent!
In this excellent discussion of relativity theory, Eric Baird introduces the reader to the history and practice of relativity theory, jauntily condensing and critiquing centuries of research as he builds his accompanying argument: that Albert Einstein's 1905 flat-spacetime special theory cannot be fully reconciled with emerging concepts of curved spacetime, and that a more general and flexible ...

Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and Black Hole Thermodynamics (Chicago Lectures in Physics)
Robert M. Wald

University Of Chicago Press, 1994

In this book, Robert Wald provides a coherent, pedagogical introduction to the formulation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. He begins with a treatment of the ordinary one-dimensional quantum harmonic oscillator, progresses through the construction of quantum field theory in flat spacetime to possible constructions of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, and, ultimately, to an algebraic formulation of the theory. In his ...

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