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Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022)

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Ricardo Jimenez wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 02:34:10 -0700 (PDT), Ufonaut <ufonaut9@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 5:36:39 PM UTC+10, prokaryotic.c...@gmail.com wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> My current favorite GR text is "Introducing Einstein's Relativity", by
> > >> D'Inverno, supplemented with a *considerable* amount of additional
> > >> reading, since I was slow in picking up the required math.
> > >
> > >I know I have a bit of catching up on the math as well, but as it's always good to challenge yourself (I heard a quote recently : "Nothing good has ever come from a comfort zone" ! ) : Thanks for the recommendation, I've just ordered "Introducing Einstein's Relativity".
> >
> > There is a new edition called "Introducing Einstein's Relativity A
> > deeper understanding" that just came out coauthored with James
> > Vickers.  It has this preface:
> > This book provides an excellent introduction to the ideas and basic
> > mathematical techniques needed for a study
> > of Einstein’s superb – and now widely observationally confirmed –
> > general theory of relativity. The underlying
> > concepts and basic mathematics are presented with utmost clarity and
> > by numerous greatly illuminating diagrams.
> > The reader is taken on a gentle but comprehensive route up to
> > cosmology, as currently understood, and to the
> > strange features of rotating black holes and to gravitational waves. I
> > am sure that it will inspire many students
> > and other readers to enter into the beauties and of the power of this
> > subject, which deeply underlies much of the
> > physics of our world, and perhaps it will inspire others to carry this
> > understanding further into what is currently
> > unknown.
> > Roger Penrose
> > July 2021
> >
> > The treatment of special relativity, at first glance, seems the same
> > as in the original edition.  It is based on the Bondi k-factor.  I
> > don't like that.  It makes more sense to me to establish, from the
> > start, the gamma factor which is a simpler concept.
> 
> maybe he should come out with a 3rd edition and add the words atomic
> bomb to it....


When I look at the cover of Time Magazine
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1946/1101460701_400.jpg

it reads Einstein's 1905 paper equates to Atomic Bomb, not  relativity.


Albert Einstein didn't want to do a Relativity experiment, he want to do an Atomic Bomb experiment.
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1946/1101460701_400.jpg


If you girls cannot understand Einstein's 1905 paper, surely you can understand a picture of it:

http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1946/1101460701_400.jpg



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 to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge
 the unchallengeable.

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Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Ricardo Jimenez <rickyjim@earthlink.net> - 2022-07-31 19:43 -0400
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