Steven S Gubser
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"Steven S. Gubser, Winner of the 2017 Simons Investigator Award in Physics, Simons Foundation" "Frans Pretorius, Winner of the 2017 New Horizons Prize in Fundamental Physics" Steven S. Gubser (1972–2019) was professor of physics at Princeton University. His books include The Little Book of String Theory (Princeton). Frans Pretorius is professor of physics at Princeton. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Dive into a mind-bending exploration of...
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Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality? A viewpoint many shared. After introducing the basics of the special and general theories of relativity, this book describes black...
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Called the "theory of everything," string theory has divided the physics world. Proponents hope that it will reach its potential to explain and connect all physical phenomena from gravity and motion to light and nuclear reactions, while detractors wait for experimental data to expose its flaws. For nonphysicists, string theory can be very confusing with its talk of tachyons, branes, and 26 dimensions. Gubser (physics, Princeton Univ.) does a masterly...