{"product_id":"feynman-lectures-on-gravitation-9780813340388","title":"Feynman Lectures On Gravitation","description":"The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little. These lectures represent a useful record of his viewpoints and some of his insights into gravity and its application to cosmology, superstars, wormholes, and gravitational waves at that particular time. The lectures also contain a number of fascinating digressions and asides on the foundations of physics and other issues.Characteristically, Feynman took an untraditional non-geometric approach to gravitation and general relativity based on the underlying quantum aspects of gravity. Hence, these lectures contain a unique pedagogical account of the development of Einstein's general theory of relativity as the inevitable result of the demand for a self-consistent theory of a massless spin-2 field (the graviton) coupled to the energy-momentum tensor of matter. This approach also demonstrates the intimate and fundamental connection between gauge invariance and the principle of equivalence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ed matter and nuclear physics, and to theoretical astrophysics. Editor of Perseus' \u003ci\u003eFrontiers in Physics\u003c\/i\u003e series and former editor of American Physical Society's \u003ci\u003eReviews of Modern Physics, \u003c\/i\u003e Dr. Pines is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, a foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Pines has received a number of awards, including the Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal for Contributions to Many-Body Theory; the P.A.M. Dirac Silver Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics; and the Friemann Prize in Condensed Matter Physics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"CRC Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461310189842,"sku":"9780813340388","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_013c6869-1d40-4a16-bfd7-6cadd6b494b5.jpg?v=1730062856","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/feynman-lectures-on-gravitation-9780813340388","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}