Albert Einstein's Vision: Remarkable Discoveries That Shaped Modern Science Book

	Preface	11
	Introduction	13
Chapter 1	Twists in the Fabric of Space	23
	The Yearbook Article	24
	The Equivalence Principle	27
	To Prague	28
	The Rotating Disk Paradox	30
	Back to Switzerland	34
	To Berlin	37
	The Breakthrough	39
	The Warping of Space	42
	The Annalen der Physik Paper	43
Chapter 2	Expanding to Space: History of the Cosmological Constant	45
	De Sitter's Universe	47
	Friedmann's Universe	50
	Lemaitre's Universe	53
	Slipher and Hubble	54
	The Big Bang	61
	Inflation Theory	66
	Dark Matter	68
	The Accelerating Universe	69
	Quintessence	72
	Alternate Theories	72
	What Would Einstein Think?	74
Chapter 3	Black Holes, Wormholes, and Other Demons	75
	Never-Ending Collapse	79
	After the War	83
	Collapse to a Black Hole	85
	The No-Hair Theorem	86
	Space-Time Diagrams	88
	The Penrose Process and More	92
	Primordial Black Holes	93
	Exploding Black Holes	95
	White Holes	97
	Into a Black Hole	98
	Einstein's Influence	100
Chapter 4	The Mystery of Time and Time Travel	101
	The River of Time	103
	Einstein's Time	104
	Is Time Travel Possible?	106
	Sagan and Thorne	106
	Transforming to a Time Machine	111
	Other Methods for Time Machines	113
	Causality and Paradox	113
	Problems	115
	Where Are the Visitors from the Future?	116
	Einstein's Vision	117
Chapter 5	Ripples in the Curvature of Space	119
	Weber	122
	Others Look for the Waves	125
	Sources of Gravitational Waves	126
	Taylor and Hulse	128
	Weiss and Drever	130
	The Interferometer Detector	131
	Kip Thorne and the Initiation of LIGO	132
	LIGO	134
	GEO 600, VIRGO, and TAMA 300	135
	Next-Generation Detectors	136
	Einstein's Legacy	137
Chapter 6	Gravity's Cosmic Lenses	139
	Structure of a Gravitational Lens	140
	Early Predictions	141
	Discovery of the First Gravitational Lens	142
	Gravitational Lens Surveys	144
	Determination of the Hubble Constant	144
	The Cosmological Constant	146
	Einstein Rings	146
	Giant Arcs and Arclets	147
	Microlensing of Quasars and Stars	149
	Extrasolar Planets	150
	Cosmic Strings	150
	The Future	151
Chapter 7	Einstein's Quantum Legacy	153
	The Double-Slit Experiment	155
	Einstein and Bohr	157
	EPR	158
	Entanglement	160
	Bell's Inequality	162
	Shimony, Horne, and Clauser	162
	Alain Aspect and Others	165
	Teleportation	165
	Faster Than the Speed of Light	168
	Einstein's Quantum Vision	169
Chapter 8	Superbombs	171
	E = mc[superscript 2]	171
	Meitner, Hahn, and Nuclear Fisson	172
	The Letter	175
	Heisenberg's Bomb	176
	The American Bomb	177
	To Norway	178
	The Manhattan Project	179
	The Continuing German Threat	180
	Einstein's Role	181
	The Hydrogen Bomb	182
	Einstein's Reaction	186
Chapter 9	Other Einstein Insights	187
	Bose	188
	Einstein's Response	190
	Bose-Einstein Condensate	191
	Einstein's Inventions	194
	Masers and Lasers	197
	Einstein's Photons	200
	Atoms and Molecules	201
	Brownian Motion	202
Chapter 10	Dreams of a Unified Theory	203
	The First Unified Field Theories	204
	The Problem	206
	Three Routes to Quantum Gravity	212
	Loop Quantum Gravity	214
	The Black Hole Connection	215
	The Hologram Connection	218
	Einstein and the Latest Developments	219
Chapter 11	Strings and Superstrings	221
	The Beginnings	221
	The Standard Model	224
	The First String Quantum Gravity Theory	225
	The Schwarz-Green Breakthrough	226
	The First String Revolution	227
	String Interactions	228
	Supersymmetry	230
	Adding More Dimensions	232
	A Plethora of Theories	233
	Testing the Theory	234
Chapter 12	Beyond Superstrings: M-Theory	237
	The Standard Approach: Perturbation Theory	238
	The Second Superstring Revolution	241
	Link to Supergravity	243
	Small-Large Dualities	244
	M-Theory	245
	P-Branes and the Brane World	246
	Another Black Hole Connection	247
	Holograms and Branes	248
	The Final Consensus	249
	Epilogue	251
	Notes	255
	Glossary	265
	Bibliography	273
	Index	279