Space, Time and Einstein : An Introduction.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Part I: Einstein's revolution -- 1 From Aristotle to Hiroshima -- 2 Einstein in a nutshell -- 3 The twin paradox -- 4 How to build an atomic bomb -- 5 The four-dimensional universe -- 6 Time travel is possible -- 7 Can the mind understand the world? -- Part II: Philosophical progress -- 8 Who invented space? -- 9 Zeno's paradoxes: is motion impossible? -- 10 Philosophers at war: Newton vs. Leibniz -- 11 The philosophy of left and right -- 12 The unreality of time -- 13 General relativity: is space curved? -- 14 The fall of geometry: is mathematics certain? -- 15 The resurrection of absolutes -- 16 The resilience of space -- Part III: Frontiers -- 17 Faster than light: was Einstein wrong? -- 18 The Big Bang: how did the universe begin? -- 19 Black holes: trapdoors to nowhere -- 20 Why haven't aliens come visiting? -- 21 The inflationary and accelerating universe -- 22 Should we believe the physicists? -- Appendix A: Spacetime diagrams -- Appendix B: Symmetry and Lorentz's minority interpretation -- Appendix C: Simple formulas for special relativity -- Appendix D: Websites -- Appendix E: Guide to further reading -- Index.

An introduction to Space, time and Einstein, one of the most popular fields in philosophy. It considers the theories of the ancient Greek philosophers, Zeno, Euclid and Parmenides alongside the ideas of Newton, Leibniz and Kant as well as the giants of twentieth-century physics, Einstein and Lorentz.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.