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Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved
Black Hole How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians Hated by Einstein and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved
Author: Marcia Bartusiak
For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes?not even light?seemed to confound all logic. This engrossing book tells the story of the fierce black hole debates and the contributions ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300210859
ISBN-10: 030021085X
Publication Date: 4/28/2015
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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