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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Matter
GLOSSARY
A Convenient Fiction
Determining Molecular Dimensions
Adventures in Statistical Mechanics
Brownian Motion Explained
Profile: Satyendra Bose
Perrin’s Particles
Bose-Einstein Statistics
Bose-Einstein Condensates
Quantum Adventures
GLOSSARY
Einstein’s Changing Physics
Photoelectric Quanta
Millikan Delivers
Quantized Vibrations
Profile: Max Planck
Towards Wave-Particle Duality
Stimulated Emission
Special Theory of Relativity
GLOSSARY
From Patents to Relativity
Dreaming About Light
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
Farewell to the Ether
Profile: Hermann Minkowski
Simultaneity
Length, Time & Mass
Spacetime
Einstein & the World
GLOSSARY
On the Energy & Inertia of Bodies
E=MC2
The Chain
Profile: Leo Szilárd
Making Einstein’s Equation a Reality
The Roosevelt Letter
A Voice for Peace
Einstein’s Patent
Fighting the Quantum
GLOSSARY
Letters to Born
Einstein’s Slit
Weighing the Photon
Hidden Variables
Profile: Niels Bohr
EPR
Entanglement Triumphs
Realism & Reality
General Theory of Relativity
GLOSSARY
Breaking Inertial Frames
The Happiest Thought
Heavy Clocks
A Curve in Space & Time
Profile: Arthur Eddington
Needing a new Mathematics
The Hilbert Challenge
The Equations
Eddington’s Expedition
Einstein’s Universe
GLOSSARY
Black Holes
Gravitational Lenses
Gravitational Waves
The Cosmological Constant
Expanding Universes
Wormholes
Frame Draffing & Time Travel
Profile: John Wheeler
Unified Field Theories
Appendices
Resources
Notes on Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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