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ISBN 10: 1902683676
ISBN 13: 9781902683676
Author: J B Kennedy
Part I Einstein's revolution
Chapter 1 From Aristotle to Hiroshima
Chapter 2 Einstein in a nutshell
Two theories of relativity
The speed of light is constant
Faster speeds, longer hours
The lazy ship
The principle of relativity
Faster speeds, shorter lengths
The relativity of simultaneity
Interpreting relativity
The mainstream interpretation
The minority interpretation
Chapter 3 The twin paradox
Symmetry
Measuring spaces in time
The garage
Interpreting symmetry
A fountain of youth?
Chapter 4 How to build an atomic bomb
Faster speeds, greater masses
The celestial speed limit
Mass is energy: energy is mass
Chain reactions
Interpreting mass—energy
Chapter 5 The four-dimensional universe
Is the world made of events?
Do the future and past exist now?
Spacetime
The block universe argument
Chapter 6 Time travel is possible
Causal order
Killing grandmothers
Chapter 7 Can the mind understand the world?
Part II Philosophical progress
Chapter 8 Who invented space?
The problem of change
Another problem of change
Parmenides
The invention of space
Aristotle's common sense
Criticism
Chapter 9 Zeno's paradoxes: is motion impossible?
The arrow and the dichotomy
Aristotle banishes infinity
Paradoxes of plurality
What are relations?
Zeno and the mathematicians
Chapter 10 Philosophers at war: Newton vs. Leibniz
The geometrization of space
Absolute space and absolute time
The bucket argument
Leibniz's attack
Leibniz's alternative vision: the monadology
The mathematics of change
Chapter 11 The philosophy of left and right
Kant's startling argument
Kant is rescued
Chapter 12 The unreality of time
The A-series and the B-series
The B-series is contradictory
The A-series is contradictory
Chapter 13 General relativity: is space curved?
Red rubber sheets
Eddington's eclipse expedition
The path to discovery
Equivalence and the bucket
The shape of the universe
Chapter 14 The fall of geometry: is mathematics certain?
Euclid and his Elements
The rise of non-Euclidean geometries
What does curved space curve into?
The loss of certainty
Chapter 15 The resurrection of absolutes
Modern relationalism
Mach motivates Einstein
Neo-Newtonian spacetime
Absolutes in general relativity
The bucket in orbit
Chapter 16 The resilience of space
Part III Frontiers
Chapter 17 Faster than light: was Einstein wrong?
Peaceful coexistence
The EPR experiments
Controversy
Revisiting the majority and minority interpretations
Chapter 18 The Big Bang: how did the universe begin?
Chapter 19 Black holes: trapdoors to nowhere
Chapter 20 Why haven't aliens come visiting?
Chapter 21 The inflationary and accelerating universe
Chapter 22 Should we believe the physicists?
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