Testing Einstein
One Hundred Years of Experimental Relativity
$214.49
- Paperback
392 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
A collection that confronts the reality of experimental gravity, which is different from the conventional-and overly simplistic-understanding.
Investigating just over a century of experimental relativity, the individual essays in this volume place the process of experimental relativity within its historical contexts as an interdisciplinary endeavor. Testing Einstein embraces not only the individual tests of general relativity but also the fundamental nature of experimental physics: Ho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553643 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262553643 |
| Author: | Brian C. Odom, Daniel Kennefick |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
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About the Authors
Brian C. Odom is currently Chief Historian at NASA. He is the coeditor of NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement—winner of the 2019 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award from the American Astronautical Society—and NASA and the American South.
Daniel Kennefick is a physicist and historian of science at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of No Shadow of a Doubt and Traveling at the Speed of Thought, and a coauthor of An Einstein Encyclopedia.
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