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Levenson, Thomas
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
General relativity (Physics) -- History -- 20th century.
Vulcan (Hypothetical planet).
Relativity.
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Levenson, Thomas
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
General relativity (Physics) -- History -- 20th century.
Vulcan (Hypothetical planet).
Relativity.
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The hunt for
Vulcan
: and how Albert Einstein destroyed a
planet
, discovered relativity, and deciphered the universe / Thomas Levenson.
by
Levenson, Thomas
Random House, 2017, c2016.
Call #:
523.4 L657h
Subjects
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
General relativity (Physics) -- History -- 20th century.
Vulcan
(
Hypothetical
planet
).
Relativity.
ISBN:
9780812988307 (pbk.)
0812988302 (pbk.)
Edition:
Random House Trade Paperback ed.
Description:
xv, 229 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The captivating, all-but-forgotten story of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the search for a
planet
that never existed. For more than fifty years, the world's top scientists searched for the "missing"
planet
Vulcan
, whose existence was mandated by Isaac Newton's theories of gravity. Countless hours were spent on the hunt for the elusive orb, and some of the era's most skilled astronomers even claimed to have found it. There was just one problem: It was never there. In The Hunt for
Vulcan
, Thomas Levenson follows the visionary scientists who inhabit the story of the phantom
planet
, starting with Isaac Newton, who in 1687 provided an explanation for all matter in motion throughout the universe, leading to Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier, who almost two centuries later built on Newton's theories and discovered Neptune, becoming the most famous scientist in the world. Le Verrier attempted to surpass that triumph by predicting the existence of yet another
planet
in our solar system,
Vulcan
. It took Albert Einstein to discern that the mystery of the missing
planet
was a problem not of measurements or math but of Newton's theory of gravity itself. Einstein's general theory of relativity proved that
Vulcan
did not and could not exist, and that the search for it had merely been a quirk of operating under the wrong set of assumptions about the universe. Levenson tells the previously untold tale of how the "discovery" of
Vulcan
in the nineteenth century set the stage for Einstein's monumental breakthrough, the greatest individual intellectual achievement of the twentieth century." --Back cover
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