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ISBN Number: 9789812383471
Written by: Ruffini, Remo
Published by: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Copyright: 2003
Cover Type: HARDCOVER
This book gives a detailed, up-to-date account of the Lense-Thirring effect and its implications for physics and astrophysics. Starting from a profound intuition of Lense and Thirring in 1918, based on a simple solution to the linearized Einstein field equations, this has emerged in the past four decades as a phenomenon of extraordinary importance in cosmology, radio jets in quasars, and the physics of neutron stars and black holes, besides leading to some of the most sophisticated experiments ever performed in the space surrounding our planet. The book contains the contributions presented at the "Third William Fairbank Meeting, " which have been expanded by adding a complete set of classical and prominent contemporary papers on this subject and a general introduction by R Ruffini. Readership: Researchers and graduate students in astrophysics and high energy physics. Book News Annotation:
Provides a current account of the Lense-Thirring effect and its
implications for physics and astrophysics. Containing contributions
presented at the Third William Fairbank Meeting and expanded by the
addition of a complete set of classical and contemporary papers on
the subject, as well as a general introduction by Remo Ruffini
(University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy), the 44 total chapters
address topics ranging from equations of motion of spinning particles
in electrodynamics and general relativity to probing the
gravitomagnetic Lense-Thirring effect with neutron stars and black
holes.
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