One Hundred Years Of General Relativity From Genesis And Empirical Foundations To Gravitational Waves Cosmology And Quantum Gravity The 2 Volumes Weitou Ni by Wei-tou Ni 9789814635127, 981463512X instant download after payment.

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations
announced in February 2016 and in June 2016 the first direct detections of gravitational
waves (GWs) by LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston detectors in September
2015 and in December 2015. With the LIGO discovery announcements, two important
things are verified: (i) GWs are directly detected in the solar-system; (ii) Black
holes (BHs), binary BHs and BH coalescences are discovered and measured experimentally
and directly with the distances reached more than 1 billion light years.
These discoveries constitute the best celebration of the centennial of the genesis of
general relativity. We refer the readers to Refs. 1 and 2 for the discovery and Refs.
3 and 4 for a brief history of gravitational wave research.
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 astrophysics and cosmology. The series focuses on five aspects of the theory:

• Genesis, Solutions and Energy
• Empirical Foundations
• Gravitational Waves
• Cosmology
• Quantum Gravity

The first three topics are covered in Volume 1 and the remaining two are covered in Volume 2. While this is a two-volume title, it is designed so that each volume can be a standalone reference volume for the related topic.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in general relativity.
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