An illustrated introductory guide to relativity ...

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Fall into a black hole on a real free fall orbit. All distortions of images are real, both general relativistic from the gravitational bending of light, and special relativistic from the near light speed orbit.

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Reflections on Relativity Contents Preface 1 1. First Principles 1.1 Experience and Spacetime 3 1.2 Systems of Reference 9 1.3 Inertia and Relativity 14 1.4 The Dilemma of Light 20 1.5 Corresponding States 29 1.6 A More Practical Arrangement 38 1.7 Staircase Wit 45 1.8 Another Symmetry 52 1.9 Generalized Lorentz Transformations 60 1.10 Null Coordinates 65 2. A Complex of Phenomena 2.1 The ...

Learn about Einstein's Theory of Relativity Online. Find out how the universe began and how it will end.

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Here's some basic background covering how mathematical models of space and time have evolved since ancient times, from the Pythagorean Rule to Newtonian mechanics, Special Relativity and General Relativity. What is spacetime Why was Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity needed How does Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity work What is causality and what does it have to do with time ...

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, abstract gr-qc/9707012 From: Paul Townsend P.K.Townsend@damtp.cam.ac.uk Date: Fri, 4 Jul 97 16:13:06 BST (139kb) Black Holes Authors: P.K. Townsend Comments: 145 pp. Many diagrams Lecture notes for a 'Part III' course 'Black Holes' given in DAMTP, Cambridge. The course covers some of the developments in Black Hole physics of the 1960s and 1970s. Paper: ...

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Next: Astronomy GENERAL RELATIVITY & COSMOLOGY As Elementary Particle Physicists direct their attention ``down'' toward the indescribably tiny, so Cosmologists turn their gaze ``upward'' toward the unfathomably huge. Of course, these days both are increasingly likely to be incarnate in the same individual - I'll get to that later. As one who has never looked through a telescope larger than I ...

Special Relativity ...