Space, Time and Gravity: the Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes (Second Edition)

Writing for the general reader or student, Wald has completely revised and updated this highly regarded work to include recent developments in black hole physics and cosmology. Nature called the first edition "a very readable and accurate account of modern relativity physics for the layman within the unavoidable constraint of almost no mathematics. . . . A well written, entertaining and authoritative book." Booknews Wald (physics, U. of Chicago) has revised the first edition, 1977, to cover current theory and observation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Provides the general reader with an elementary but scientifically sound introduction to such fascinating topics as the theory of the big-bang origin of the universe and the nature of black holes. More than two thousand years ago, Euclid wrote down his postulates and proved a number of theorems concerning the geometry of space.