Learning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaître
Before the Big Bang Theory
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st ed. 2019
- Publisher Springer International Publishing
- Date of Publication 12 December 2020
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783030220327
- Binding Paperback
- See also 9783030220297
- No. of pages243 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XXVI, 243 p. 120
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Long description:
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 treatise, published in this book, that was to earn him Fellowships to study at Cambridge, MIT and Harvard, and launched him on a scientific path of ground-breaking discoveries. Almost a century after Lemaître’s seminal publications of 1927 and 1931, this highly pedagogical treatise is still of timely interest to young minds and remains of great value from a history of science perspective.
Table of Contents:
Preface by the volume editors.- The Physics of Einstein by Georges Lemaître (1922): The Historical Context.- An Invitation to Further Reading.- The Physics of Einstein: Introduction.- Space and Time.- Force Fields.- Field Production by Relative Motion.- Graviation.- Electric Charges.- La Physique d’Einstein – French version edited from the original manuscript.- La correspondance entre Georges Lemaître et Maurice Alliaume.
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