Einstein: still right after all these years

  Relativity readings

The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens, Gerald Holton, Cambridge University, 1986.

Black Holes and Time Warps, Kip Thorne, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1994.

Bose-Einstein Condensates Display Their First Tricks, Gary Taubes, Science, 6/14/97, p. 1587-8.

Einstein's General Relativity: It's a Drag, R. Cowen, Science News, 11/15/97, p. 308.

Einstein, History and Other Passions, Gerald Holton, Addison-Wesley, 1995.

First Atom Laser Shoots Pulses of Coherent Material, Gary Taubes, Science, 1/3/97, p. 617-8.

The Reluctant Father of Black Holes, Jeremy Bernstein, Scientific American, 6/96, p. 80 ff.



Surfin, surfin'

We found a great exhibit on relativity, spacetime and Einstein.

The first word, last word, ultimate word on Einstein.

Here's information on a gravitational observatory that's about to start looking for the gravity waves that Einstein predicted.

The American Institute of Physics is way cooler than it sounds. Don't miss their Einstein : image and impact exhibit.

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