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Author: Bahram Mashhoon (Professor of Physics (retired), Professor of Physics (retired), Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Volume: 167
Dimensions:
Width: 18.20cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 25.20cm
Weight: 0.648kg
ISBN: 9780198803805
ISBN 10: 019880380
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 18 May 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
We are a bit like the physicists of the early 20'th century who struggled with a crisis of sorts, in attempting to explain away the apparent inconsistency of the so-called luminiferous aether that couldn't be seen but seemed essential for light wave propagation. Of course it was special relativity that saved us from the so-called Fitzgerald contraction as an epicycle on Maxwell's theory. Today we struggle with a different, but perhaps too similar invisible substance called dark matter. But now Bahram Mashhoon's Nonlocal Gravity develops some beautiful concepts that have the power to instill renewed confidence in Occam's Razor in the disheartened graduate students, researchers, and teachers of physics and astrophysics who haven't yet seen a light at the end of the dark matter tunnel. * Jeff Kuhn, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, USA *
We are a bit like the physicists of the early 20'th century who struggled with a crisis of sorts, in attempting to explain away the apparent inconsistency of the so-called luminiferous aether that couldn't be seen but seemed essential for light wave propagation. Of course it was special relativity that saved us from the so-called Fitzgerald contraction as an epicycle on Maxwell's theory. Today we struggle with a different, but perhaps too similar invisible substance called dark matter. But now Bahram Mashhoon's Nonlocal Gravity develops some beautiful concepts that have the power to instill renewed confidence in Occam's Razor in the disheartened graduate students, researchers, and teachers of physics and astrophysics who haven't yet seen a light at the end of the dark matter tunnel. Jeff Kuhn, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, USA
Author Information
Bahram Mashhoon has spent his academic career working on relativity and gravitation. This book is the culmination of his work at the University of Missouri in Columbia over the past thirty years. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University under the supervision of John A. Wheeler. As an undergraduate, he attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he was mentored in physics by Emilio G. Segrè. Born in Tehran, Mashhoon left Iran in 1966 to study physics in the US.
