Black holes and curved spacetime

Author: Zhao Zheng
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: This book is one of the "Modern Science Theory Series." At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was a period of significant transformation in physics. By the end of the 19th century, Newtonian mechanics, thermodynamics, statistical physics, electromagnetism, and wave optics had all made substantial progress and achieved great historical significance. The book covers the following topics: early understandings of space and time and the universe, relativity and quantum theory, curved spacetime, the vast universe, black holes, quantum and thermal effects near black holes, the geometric and physical origins of black hole thermal effects, and the starting point—the beginning and end of time.