Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth DimensionCourier Corporation, 8. juni 2012 - 160 sider This is a highly readable, popular exposition of the fourth dimension and the structure of the universe. A remarkable pictorial discussion of the curved space-time we call home, it achieves even greater impact through the use of 141 excellent illustrations. This is the first sustained visual account of many important topics in relativity theory that up till now have only been treated separately. |
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... pretty good idea of what a straight line is in our space : the shortest path between two points . However , in order to start with as little as possible in the way of assumptions , we. 18 / GEOMETry , Relativity AND THE FOURth Dimension.
... path from one to the other . It is certainly true that there seem to be no boundaries to space . It is certainly true that objects do not seem to expand or contract as we move them around . And it is certainly true that our " straight ...
... paths . On the other hand , we would think of Flatland as being the Flat Sphere if we argued that the space of Flatland was flat , but that objects naturally traveled along curved paths because of some Non - Euclidean Geometry / 27.
Rudolf Rucker. that objects naturally traveled along curved paths because of some universal field that acted on all the objects in Flatland . In the former case , we accept an unexplained curvature of space , in the latter we accept an ...
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