A PROBLEM-BASED INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY: INCLUDING WORKED PROBLEMS AND DISCUSSIONS OF THE EHRENFEST PARADOX AND THE MAXWELL EQUATIONSAuthor(s): George D Gollin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore\nImprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd\nISBN-13: 9789819812394, 978-9819812394\nSynopsis\nIt is Einstein's Theory of Relativity that braids space and time into a thread from which the fabric of existence is woven; it is Relativity that forces the existence of magnetism, and the Pauli Principle, and the biochemistry of living things. A Newtonian universe would be [url] is a fever-dream alienness to Einstein's theory, which offers students a first opportunity to see how profoundly different physical reality is from our familiar (and grossly inaccurate) classical picture. This divergence springs inescapably from a single, simple observation: the speed with which a beam of light travels through empty space is always, a.