书目名称 | Learning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaître |
副标题 | Before the Big Bang |
编辑 | Georges Lemaître,Jan Govaerts,Jean-François Stoffe |
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概述 | Early textbook on the special and general relativity theory by Georges Lemaître, the founding father of the Big Bang Theory.Unique document presented in the historical context.Includes both the augmen |
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描述 | .This book presents the first English translation of the original French treatise “La Physique d’Einstein” written by the young Georges Lemaître in 1922, only six years after the publication of Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. It includes an historical introduction and a critical edition of the original treatise in French supplemented by the author’s own later additions and corrections. .Monsignor Georges Lemaître can be considered the founder of the “Big Bang Theory” and a visionary architect of modern Cosmology. The scientific community is only beginning to grasp the full extent of the legacy of this towering figure of 20th century physics. Against the best advice of the greatest names of his time, the young Lemaître was convinced, solely through the study of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, that space and time must have had a beginning with a tremendous “Big Bang” from a “quantum primeval atom” resulting in an ever-expanding Universe with a positive cosmological constant. ..But how did the young Lemaître, essentially on his own, come to grips with the physics of Einstein? A year before his ordination as a diocesan priest, he submitted the audacious treati |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | Georges Lemaitre; History of cosmology; Relativity textbook; Big Bang theory; Hubble law; Understanding g |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22030-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-22032-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-22030-3 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 |