Author

Publication

1990-04-01 - W. W. Norton & Company

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780393306750
  • Open LibraryOL7452842M

Classifications

  • DDC530.1/1
  • LCCQC173.55 .C46 1988

Description

Explores the theory of relativity and its strange predictions--time dilation, length contraction, and curved space.

First Sentence

OUR CIVILIZATION may never develop the technology to journey far enough from the Milky Way to look back and see its full grandeur.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Relatively SpeakingW. W. Norton & Company1990-04-01

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