Teaching general relativity to undergraduates
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Teaching general relativity to undergraduates
eneral relativity lies at the heart of a wide variety of exciting astrophysical and cosmological discoveries made during the past decade or so. Whereas in 1919 Arthur Eddington was allegedly at a loss to name a third person who understood general relativity, presently its knowledge and use are widespread. We have come a long way in a century. Perhaps the most compelling of the new results is th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physics Today
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0031-9228,1945-0699
DOI: 10.1063/pt.3.1605