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008			180320s2018 pica b 001 0beng
020			_a1933480475 (pbk.)
020			_a9781933480473 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)1080207579
040			_aNLC _beng _erda _cNLC _dOCLCO _dGFC _dOCLCF _dMiTN
041	1		_aeng _hger
050		4	_aQC16 .E5 _bP2513 2018
055		0	_aQC16 .E5 _bP2513 2018
082	0	4	_a530.092 _223
100	1		_aPadova, Thomas de, _d1965-
240	1	0	_aAllein gegen die Schwerkraft. _lEnglish.
245	1	0	_aAlone against gravity : _bEinstein in Berlin: The turbulent birth of the theory of relativity, 1914-1918 / _cThomas De Padova.
264		1	_aCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island : _bBunim & Bannigan, _c2018.
300			_a274 p. : _bill., _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
500			_a"Marking the 100th anniversity of WWI 1918-2018."-Cover.
500			_aTranslation of: Allein gegen die Schwerkraft.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Thomas De Padova's biography sheds new light on Einstein's general theory of relativity and its emergence in the midst of the First World War. The book focuses on a pivotal period of four years, 1914-1918, in the life and work of Albert Einstein in Berlin. The years between 1914 and 1918 were years of scientific wonder. Einstein completed and presented his general theory of relativity; his most significant scientific achievement that opened science a completely new perspective on space and time and the structure of our universe. His linking of space and time, matter and gravity, introduced questions that occupy physicists and philosophers to this day. (Only recently in 2017, proving the ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory, won the Nobel Prize for physics). But these were also years of horror, of unleashing the violence of nationalism. Einstein's idyllic research institute transformed into a lab that developed the first weapons of mass destruction. "Our highly acclaimed technological progress, our civilization in general, is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal," Einstein declared bitterly in the midst of the war. Witnessing his colleagues' chauvinism and the events of the war politicized Einstein who became an active pacifist. Using parallel events, Thomas De Padova takes us into the historical and social context of World War 1, unfolding the story of Einstein's inner and outer worlds; his scientific struggle to decipher and resist gravity and his social struggle to resist nationalism and violence."-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aEinstein, Albert, _d1879-1955.
650		0	_aPhysicists _vBiography.
650		0	_aRelativity (Physics) _93192
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