It's about Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity

by N. David Mermin

Book Overview

In It's About Time, N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the real nature of time discovered by Einstein can be rigorously explained without advanced mathematics. This readable exposition of the nature of time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691141274
• ISBN13: 9780691141275
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"