Physics and Astronomy 2019
Michelson – Morley Experimentss
An Enigma for Physics and the History of Science by Maurizio Consoli (National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy), Alessandro Pluchino (University of Catania, Italy) “This book has the great and uncommon virtue of combining the fascinating tale of a crucial step in the history of science with the related research sections, where the substantial contributions made by the authors themselves in this exciting field are reviewed. While the tutorial part of the book has a captivating style, suitable to entertain a general readership, the research chapters expose in a critical approach, based on the authors’ thorough research work, the fundamental implications that Michelson-Morley’s (MM) experiments in their more recent versions are having on present astroparticle physics and cosmology. “ Il Nuovo Saggiatore 196pp Jan 2019 978-981-3278-18-9 US$78 £70
Principles of Space-Time-Matter
Cosmology, Particles and Waves in Five Dimensions by Paul S Wesson, James M Overduin (Towson University, USA & Johns Hopkins University, USA) “This is a self-contained text but does assume some background in tensor analysis, and a familiarity with general relativity will be very helpful. The book is well written and will interest graduate students, faculty, and researchers. It could serve as a supplement to a course in general relativity.” CHOICE This book sums up the prospects for unification between relativity and particle physics by extending Einstein’s theory of General Relativity to five dimensions. This subject was first established by Paul Wesson in his previous best-seller, Space-Time-Matter, and discussed from a different perspective in Five-Dimensional Physics, both published by World Scientific in 1999 and 2006. This third book brings the field up to date and details exciting connections to quantum theory and particle physics, suggesting the possibility of new experimental tests. 276pp 978-981-3235-77-9
Jan 2019 US$98 £85
New Perspectives on Einstein’s E = mc2 by Young Suh Kim (University of Maryland, College Park, USA), Marilyn E Noz (New York University, USA)
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Einstein’s energy–momentum relation is applicable to particles of all speeds, including particles at rest and massless particles moving at the speed of light. If one formula or formalism is applicable to all speeds, we call it “Lorentzcovariant”. This book aims to extend Einstein’s Lorentz covariance to the internal space-time symmetries of elementary particles moving with different speeds. Using the same mathematical tool, it is possible to give a Lorentz-covariant picture of Gell-Mann’s quark model for the proton at rest and Feynman’s parton model for the fast-moving proton. 200pp 978-981-3237-70-4
Nov 2018 US$78 £69
One Hundred Years of General Relativity
From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity (In 2 Volumes) edited by Wei-Tou Ni (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan) "This collection is certainly meant for experts, but it must be recommended to students and people interested in the field; in one book they can find a complete overview of General Relativity: past, present and future." Angela di Virgilio INFN, Frascati 1356pp(Set) May 2017 978-981-4635-12-7 US$248 £206 MORE TITLES LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY: THE FIRST 30 YEARS ASHTEKAR ABHAY (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA), PULLIN JORGE (LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA) 9789813209923 FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERFEROMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS (SECOND EDITION) SAULSON PETER R (SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, USA) 9789813143074 AN OVERVIEW OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: THEORY, SOURCES AND DETECTION AUGER GERARD (UNIVERSITÉPARIS DIDEROT — PARIS 7, FRANCE), PLAGNOL ERIC (UNIVERSITÉPARIS DIDEROT — PARIS 7, FRANCE) 9789813141759
CLASSIC TITLES GENERAL RELATIVITY: A FIRST EXAMINATION BLECHER MARVIN (VIRGINIA TECH, USA) 9789813108462 LECTURES ON GRAVITATION DAS ASHOK (UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, USA & SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS, INDIA) 9789814329378 SPECIAL RELATIVITY FOR BEGINNERS: A TEXTBOOK FOR UNDERGRADUATES FREUND JÜRGEN (SCHUBART COLLEGE, GERMANY) 9789812771599 INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY WALECKA JOHN DIRK (COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, USA) 9789812705846 100 YEARS OF RELATIVITY SPACE-TIME STRUCTURE: EINSTEIN AND BEYOND ASHTEKAR ABHAY (INSTITUTE FOR GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS AND GEOMETRY, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA) 9789812563941 AN INTRODUCTION TO BLACK HOLES, INFORMATION AND THE STRING THEORY REVOLUTION: THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE SUSSKIND LEONARD (STANFORD UNIVERSITY, USA), LINDESAY JAMES (HOWARD UNIVERSITY, USA) 9789812560834 EUCLIDEAN QUANTUM GRAVITY GIBBONS G W & HAWKING S W (CAMBRIDGE) 9789810205157
