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000438184 1001_ $$aMelia, Fulvio.
000438184 24510 $$aCracking the Einstein code$$h[electronic resource] :$$brelativity and the birth of black hole physics /$$cFulvio Melia ; with an afterword by Roy Kerr.
000438184 260__ $$aChicago ;$$aLondon :$$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$$c2009.
000438184 300__ $$a1 online resource (xi, 137 p.)
000438184 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references  (p. [120]-131) and index.
000438184 5050_ $$aEinstein's code 1 -- Space and time -- Gravity -- Four pillars and a prayer -- An unbreakable code -- Roy Kerr -- The Kerr solution -- Black hole -- The tower -- New Zealand -- Future breakthrough.
000438184 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000438184 520__ $$a"Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein's mathematical code, represented by six interlocking equations, was one of the most difficult to crack in all of science. That is, until a twenty-nine-year-old Cambridge graduate solved the great riddle in 1963. Roy Kerr's solution emerged coincidentally with the discovery of black holes that same year and provided fertile testing ground - at long last - for general relativity. Today, scientists routinely cite the Kerr solution, but even among specialists, few know the story of how Kerr cracked Einstein's code." "Fulvio Melia here offers an eyewitness account of the events leading up to Kerr's great discovery. Cracking the Einstein Code vividly describes how luminaries such as Karl Schwarzschild, David Hilbert, and Emmy Noether set the stage for the Kerr solution; how Kerr came to make his breakthrough; and how scientists such as Roger Penrose, Kip Thorne, and Stephen Hawking used the accomplishment to refine and expand modern astronomy and physics. Today more than 300 million supermassive black holes are suspected of anchoring their host galaxies across the cosmos, and the Kerr solution is what astronomers and astrophysicists use to describe much of their behavior." "By unmasking the history behind the search for a real world solution to Einstein's field equations, Melia offers a first-hand account of an important but untold story. Sometimes dramatic, often exhilarating, but always attuned to the human element, Cracking the Einstein Code is ultimately a showcase of how important science gets done."--BOOK JACKET.
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000438184 60010 $$aKerr, R. P.$$q(Roy P.)
000438184 650_0 $$aEinstein field equations.
000438184 650_0 $$aKerr black holes$$xMathematical models.
000438184 650_0 $$aBlack holes (Astronomy)$$xMathematical models.
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