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Article: Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed our Understanding of Space and Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- April 9, 2005
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EINSTEIN'S COSMOS: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed our Understanding of Space and Time MICHIO KAKU
The shadow that Albert Einstein casts is so immense that scientists are still winning Nobel prizes for work stemming from ideas he came up with nearly a century ago. This book, another in the publisher's Great Discoveries series, is as much an account of Einstein's work as it is a biography of the man. In plain language, Kaku explains black holes, the dual nature of light, and Einstein's theories of special and general relativity. Even the quest for a unified field theory becomes understandable in the author's handling of it. Following Einstein's lead, Kaku ...