Black Holes

A Traveler's Guide
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-471-19704-1
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 369 g

BLACK HOLES A TRAVELER'S GUIDE

Clifford Pickover's inventive and entertaining excursion beyond the curves of space and time.

"I've enjoyed Clifford Pickover's earlier books . . . now he has ventured into the exploration of black holes. All would-be tourists are strongly advised to read his traveler's guide." -Arthur C. Clarke.

"Many books have been written about black holes, but none surpass this one in arousing emotions of awe and wonder towards the mysterious structure of the universe." -Martin Gardner.

"Bucky Fuller thought big. Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." -Wired.

"The book is fun, zany, in-your-face, and refreshingly addictive." -Times Higher Education Supplement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pickover, Clifford A.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Sachbuch
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

How to Calculate a Black Hole's Mass.

The Black Hole's Event Horizon Circumference.

Black-Hole Tidal Forces.

A Black Hole's Gravitational Lens.

A Black Hole's Gravitational Blueshift.

Gravitational Time Dilation.

Anatomical Dissection of Black Holes.

Embedding Diagrams for Warped Space-Time.

Gravitational Wave Recoil.

Optical Appearance of a Collapsing Star.

Gravitational Distension Near a Black Hole's Heart.

Quantum Foam.

Black-Hole Recreations.

Mathematical Black Holes.

Black Holes Evaporate.

Wormholes, Cosmological Doughnuts, and Parallel Universes.

Postscripts.

Author's Musings.

Smorgasbord for Computer Junkies.

Notes.

Further Reading.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

CLIFFORD A. PICKOVER, Ph.D., is the author of numerous popular science and mathematics books, including Keys to Infinity, Chaos in Wonderland, and Mazes for the Mind. He is also the lead columnist for the "Brain Boggler" section in Discover magazine. He is a researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, and his work in computer science has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, Omni, and Science News. For his work in computer graphics, he received first prize in the 1990 Beauty of Physics Competition.