1. Exploring Black Holes.
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Derbes, David
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BLACK holes ,COULOMB'S law ,TIME dilation ,EINSTEIN field equations ,KERR black holes - Abstract
More than half a century ago, Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler wrote the indispensable I Spacetime Physics, i an unconventional, brilliant, and unique - what else would you expect from John Wheeler? In 1962, Taylor was a young physics professor at Wesleyan University, starting a sabbatical at Princeton, and somewhat prophetically taking up residence in the office of Eric M. Rogers,[2] on leave. (Feynman is quoted in the I New York Times i ' obituary of his old teacher: "Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy."[4]) Would Taylor be willing to attend Wheeler's lectures, transcribe them, and then with him turn these notes into a book? 71, 423-425 (2003);10.1119/1.1555874 Edwin F. Taylor " The boundaries of nature: Special and general relativity and quantum mechanics, a second course in physics, the Oersted Award acceptance lecture", Am. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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