Overview: Explains both special and general relativity precisely, using only elementary math.Replaces lengthy calculations with figures and thought experiments.Comes quickly to the point, focusing on the physic.This book, now in a revised and updated second edition, explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail without approaching Einstein‘s life or the historical background. The text is formulated in such a way that the reader will be able to understand the essence intuitively, and new sections have been added on time machines, the twin paradoxes, and tensors. The first part
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