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Cracking the Einstein Code

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Cracking the Einstein Code Page 1 general interest 23 “Cracking the Einstein Code is at once an explanation of what black holes are, a description of their place in the universe, and a scientific biography of kerr. The uniqueness of Melia’s book lies with kerr’s biography, a story that deserved to be told but wasn’t until now. Elegant with expert pacing.” —Eric Poisson, university of guelph ScIeNce ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51951-7 Cloth $25.00/£17.50 OcTObeR 152 p., 54 halftones 6 x 9 Fulvio Melia is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona and the author of numerous books, including, most recently, The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole. With an Afterword by Roy Kerr Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics Cracking the Einstein Code FulVio MEliA 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 …