Relativity: A Very Short Introduction

by Russell Stannard

Book Overview

If you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up and you get heavier. Travel fast enough and you could weigh as much as a jumbo jet, be flattened thinner than a CD without feeling a thing-and live forever As for the angles of a triangle, they do not always have to add up to 180 degrees. And then, of course, there are black holes. These are but a few of the extraordinary consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity. It is now over...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199236224
• ISBN13: 9780199236220
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.6" x 6.8"