LEADER 04228nam 22005175 450 001 9910373930803321 005 20200703211514.0 010 $a3-030-22030-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-22030-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000009939784 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5986114 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-22030-3 035 $a(PPN)24282563X 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009939784 100 $a20191126d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLearning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaître $eBefore the Big Bang Theory /$fby Georges Lemaître ; edited by Jan Govaerts, Jean-François Stoffel 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (xxvi, 243 pages) 311 $a3-030-22029-X 327 $aPreface by the volume editors -- The Physics of Einstein by Georges Lemaître (1922): The Historical Context -- An Invitation to Further Reading -- The Physics of Einstein: Introduction -- Space and Time -- Force Fields -- Field Production by Relative Motion -- Graviation -- Electric Charges -- La Physique d?Einstein ? French version edited from the original manuscript -- La correspondance entre Georges Lemaître et Maurice Alliaume. 330 $aThis book presents the first translation into English of the treatise The Physics of Einstein completed by the young Georges Lemaître in 1922, only six years after the publication of Albert Einstein?s theory of General Relativity. It includes a historical introduction and a historical critical edition of the original treatise in French supplemented by the author?s own later additions and corrections. Monsignor Georges Lemaître can be considered the founder of the ?Big Bang Theory? and a visionary architect of modern Cosmology. The scientific community is only beginning to take in the full measure of the legacy of this towering figure of 20th century physics. Against the best advice of the great names of his day, the young Lemaître was convinced, solely through the study of Einstein?s theory of General Relativity, that space and time must have had a beginning with a tremendous ?Big Bang? from a ?quantum primeval atom? that produced an ever-expanding Universe with a positive cosmological constant. But how did the young Lemaître, essentially on his own, come to grips with the physics of Einstein? A year before his ordination as a diocesan priest, the young Lemaître submitted an audacious dissertation that was to earn him Fellowships to study at Cambridge, MIT and Harvard, and launched him on a scientific path of ground-breaking discoveries. Almost a century after Lemaître?s seminal publications of 1927 and 1931, this highly pedagogical treatise is still of timely interest to young minds and remains of great value from a history of science perspective. The original French manuscript as well as the recently discovered additions are preserved in the Georges Lemaître Archives at l?Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. 606 $aGravitation 606 $aPhysics 606 $aClassical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19070 606 $aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P29000 615 0$aGravitation. 615 0$aPhysics. 615 14$aClassical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory. 615 24$aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. 676 $a530.11 700 $aLemaître$b Georges$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0837369 702 $aGovaerts$b Jan$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aStoffel$b Jean-François$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910373930803321 996 $aLearning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaître$92504246 997 $aUNINA