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  • One Hundred Years Of General Relativity: From Genesis And Empirical Foundations To Gravitational Waves, Cosmology And Quantum Gravity - Volume 1

    by Wei-tou Ni ...
    The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development, its important theoretical consequences, gravitational wave detection and applications to ... Read more

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  • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

    Space, Time, and Motion

    by Sean Carroll ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Most appealing... technical accuracy and lightness of tone... Impeccable.”—Wall Street Journal*“A porthole into another world.”—Scientific American*“Brings science dissemination to a new level.”—ScienceThe most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blo... ... Read more

    S$ 17.43 SGD

  • Human Universe

    by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen ...
    Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ GuardianWhere are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live.Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extraordinary ... ... Read more

    S$ 11.43 SGD

  • White Holes

    by Carlo Rovelli ...
    Translated by Simon Carnell ...
    ‘If you want to remember why you once fell in love with the idea of the cosmos, or want to fall in love with it for the first time, then this book is for you’ ObserverFrom Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, this is a story of wonder, new worlds and why the end is just the beginningLet us journey into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, ... Read more

    S$ 15.14 SGD

  • Introducing Relativity

    A Graphic Guide

    by Bruce Bassett ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    A superlative, fascinating graphic account of Albert Einstein's strange world and how his legacy has been built upon since.It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the universe. Beginning near the speed of light and proceeding to explorations of space-time and curved spaces, Introducing Relativity plots a visually ... Read more

    S$ 8.16 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Holes

    The Key to Understanding the Universe

    by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw ...
    By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe.At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes ... Read more

    S$ 19.39 SGD

  • White Holes

    by Carlo Rovelli ...
    A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of TimeLet us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. We slip beyond its horizon and tumble down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we see geometry fold. Time and space pull and stretch. And finally, at the black hole’s ... Read more

    S$ 10.24 SGD

  • Reality Is Not What It Seems

    The Journey to Quantum Gravity

    by Carlo Rovelli ...
    Translated by Simon Carnell, Erica Segre ...
    'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' Financial Times'An utter joy' Adam RutherfordDo space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. In this mind-expanding book, he shows how our understanding of reality has changed ... Read more

    S$ 15.14 SGD

  • Relativity

    The Special and The General Theory A Popular Exposition

    by Albert Einstein ...
    The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. The work presumes a standard of education corresponding to that of a university matriculation ... Read more

    S$ 1.49 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The ABC of Relativity

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    The Nobel Prize winner offers "an ideal introduction to the theories of special and general relativity" in clear, comprehensible language ( Nature ).A renowned mathematician and philosopher , and as well as recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bertrand Russell was acclaimed for his ability to address complex subjects in accessible ways. In this classic reference book, Russell delve... ... Read more

    S$ 8.16 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hunt for Vulcan

    . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe

    by Thomas Levenson ...
    The captivating, all-but-forgotten story of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the search for a planet that never existedFor more than fifty years, the world’s top scientists searched for the “missing” planet Vulcan, whose existence was mandated by Isaac Newton’s theories of gravity. Countless hours were spent on the hunt for the elusive orb, and some of the era’s most skilled astronomers even ... Read more

    S$ 16.23 SGD

  • The Special Theory of Relativity

    by David Bohm ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In these inspiring lectures David Bohm explores Albert Einstein‘s celebrated Theory of Relativity that transformed forever the way we think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the theory were far more revolutionary both in scope and impact even than this. Stepping back from dense theoretical and scientific detail in this eye ... Read more

    S$ 35.75 SGD

  • Feynman's Tips on Physics

    Reflections, Advice, Insights, Practice

    by Richard P. Feynman, Michael A Gottlieb ...
    Feynman's Tips on Physics is a delightful collection of Richard P. Feynman's insights and an essential companion to his legendary Feynman Lectures on PhysicsWith characteristic flair, insight, and humor, Feynman discusses topics physics students often struggle with and offers valuable tips on addressing them. Included here are three lectures on problem-solving and a lecture on inertial guidance ... Read more

    S$ 15.25 SGD

  • General Relativity from A to B

    by Robert Geroch ...
    "One of the few books that treats the foundations of the theory of relativity seriously and in elaborate detail, at the non-specialist level." — NatureFrom A to B may not seem a great distance to travel, but, as Robert Geroch demonstrates in his conversational style, our perception of distance is always relative to our position in space. For persons situated outside the speculative realms of ... Read more

    S$ 22.44 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Something Deeply Hidden

    Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

    by Sean Carroll ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs you read these words, copies of you are being created.**Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how ... Read more

    S$ 17.43 SGD

  • What Is Real?

    The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

    by Adam Becker ...
    "A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book ReviewAn Editor's Choice, New York Times Book ReviewLonglisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingLonglisted for Goodreads Choice AwardEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, ... ... Read more

    S$ 18.74 SGD

  • The Universe in Your Hand

    A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond

    by Christophe Galfard ...
    Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe . . .The Universe in Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying sun, shrinks us to the size of an atom and puts us in the deathly grip of distant black holes. Along the way you might come to understand, really understand, the mind-bending science that ... Read more

    S$ 20.05 SGD

  • Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

    International Bestseller

    by Albert Einstein ...
    Series series GP Bestsellers
    Albert Einstein is the unquestioned founder of modern physics. His theory of relativity is the most important scientific idea of the modern era. In this book Einstein explains, using the minimum of mathematical terms, the basic ideas and principles of the theory which has shaped the world we live in today. Unsurpassed by any subsequent books on relativity, this remains the most popular and useful ... Read more

    S$ 3.76 SGD

  • What Is Relativity?

    An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter

    by Jeffrey Bennett ...
    A renowned astrophysicist's approachable introduction to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and its application in our daily lives.It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in mind, ... Read more

    S$ 3.82 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Relatividad y la Danza Del Tiempo

    Curvas del Espacio y el Tiempo

    by Aurora Amoris ...
    Más allá del tiempo: un viaje de descubrimientoEl tiempo… Un misterio profundo e inevitable sobre el que todas las culturas e individuos se han preguntado a lo largo de la historia de la humanidad. La delgada línea entre el pasado, el presente y el futuro nos ha fascinado, fusionando el deseo de comprender el tiempo con el sueño de dominarlo. Decidí embarcarme en este viaje, sumergiéndome en las ... Read more

    S$ 13.74 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interacting Gravitational, Electromagnetic, Neutrino And Other Waves: In The Context Of Einstein's General Theory Of Relativity

    by Anzhong Wang ...
    This book is devoted to researchers who would like to investigate interactions among gravitational waves and matter fields beyond linear order, including the phenomena of memory effects, gravitational Faraday rotation, soft theorems, and formations of spacetime singularities due to the mutual focus of gravitational waves. Readers only require a basic understanding of general relativity to ... Read more

    S$ 96.56 SGD

  • Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations: Volume 1

    Unriddling the Quantum Enigma

    by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi ...
    Series series Tayyebeh Series in East-West Research and Translation
    In this major new study in the sociology of scientific knowledge, social theorist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi reports having unriddled the so-called ‘quantum enigma.’This book opens the lid of the Schrödinger’s Cat box of the ‘quantum enigma’ after decades and finds something both odd and familiar: Not only the cat is both alive and dead, it has morphed into an elephant in the room in whose ... Read more

    S$ 49.58 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 相對論百年故事 全新增訂版

    by 余海禮 等 中華民國重力學會 主編 ...
    Series series FROM
    ■榮獲「第八屆吳大猷科學普及著作獎」創作類銀籤獎■百年前由愛因斯坦一手建立的宇宙圖象與典範■百年後中文世界首部本土創作之相對論科普著作■記錄重力波天文學最新發展與觀測過程■解開宇宙運作法則，重力波天文學研究新里程碑關於宇宙最不可理解之事，就是它竟然可被理解。本書帶你不斷在已知的邊界上，往未知探索。開啟你對宇宙學的全新視角，深度認識廣義相對論，以及重力波天文學的未來。一百年前的1915年的11月25日，愛因斯坦發表「重力場方程式」，並進而完成「廣義相對論」。這是迄今為止影響人類文明進程至為重大的科學突破，讓我們得以有系統地瞭解這個化育萬物的神祕宇宙。黑洞、宇宙膨脹、重力波……這些深奧的宇宙故事，其實與我們的日常生活息息相關。沒有「廣義相對論」協助修正地面與太空中的時間流逝差異，GPS就不可能幫我們找到正確的目的地。科學... ... Read more

    S$ 9.86 SGD

  • A theory of incomplete measurements

    Towards a unified vision of the laws of physics

    by Christophe de Dinechin ...
    For over a century, physics has been in a strange situation: in order to correctly describe the universe, we need not one, but two theories, known as quantum mechanics and general relativity.These two theories, which emerged almost simultaneously at the turn of the XXth century, were true conceptual revolutions, upturning our understanding of time, space and fundamental bricks that make up our ... Read more

    S$ 13.74 SGD