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Beyond Einstein - http://universe.nasa.gov/
Description of NASA's Beyond Einstein missions set to explore various consequences of general relativity - and possibly, as the name indicate, go beyond what Einstein's theory predicts. Includes educational resources. |
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NOVA Online/Einstein Revealed - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/
Profile of Albert Einstein, with additional teaching resources, Shockwave demonstrations, and animations of relativity concepts. |
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Relativity - http://nobelprize.org/physics/educational/relativity/
Provides information on the history, experiments and paradoxes of relativity. |
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Einstein Online - http://www.einstein-online.info/en
Information about Einstein's theories of special and general relativity and their applications; site is hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. Includes a simple introduction, a collection of articles ("Spotlights on relativity"), and a relativistic dictionary. |
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Cambridge Relativity Public Home Page - http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/
Various pages with non-technical texts about cosmology, black holes, cosmic strings, inflation, quantum cosmology, and string theory, written by members of the Relativity Group at Cambridge University. |
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Wikipedia: Introduction to General Relativity - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_general_relativity
Encyclopedia article explaining the basic concepts, observational tests and (astrophysical) applications of general relativity. |
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Wikipedia: General Relativity Resources - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity_resources
Annotated list of reading material about general relativity: popular books, textbooks, books on specific topics, web courses, and websites. |
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Relativity: List of Important Equations - http://ads.harvard.edu/books/hsaa/chap10.html
Page scans from the Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics giving equations and formulas for special relativity and relativistic cosmology. Includes bibliography. |
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Relativity bookmarks - http://physics.syr.edu/research/relativity/RELATIVITY.html
Large collection of relativity-related links by Rob Salgado (Syracuse University). Warning: page hasn't been updated since 2000, and quite a number of links are now broken. |
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Introduction to General Relativity - http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/lectures/gr.html
By Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht University); based on lectures held in 2002; a thorough introduction starting with accelerated frames and including topics such as black holes, the basics of cosmology, and gravitational radiation. |
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An Essay on General Relativity - http://astro.physics.sc.edu/selfpacedunits/Unit57.html
Overview of the basic ideas and principal applications of general relativity. Written by John L. Safko for students in the self-paced astronomy courses at the University of South Carolina in 1997. |
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Physics Bookshelf - Relativity - http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Relativity.html
A collection of articles about relativity |
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Subtle is the Gravity - http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0102009
Review of the motivations for and basic principles of general relativity, aimed at a general audience. Written by Naresh Dadhich (IUCAA Pune), based on a lecture delivered in 2001. |
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The Light Cone: An Illuminating Introduction to Relativity - http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/
Introduces the basic principles of relativity, the physics of special relativity, and some basic principles of general relativity. Contains a great number of helpful images and animations; site created by Rob Salgado (Syracuse University). |
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Selected References in Relativistic Cosmology and General Relativity - http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~hve/paplist.html
Extensive list of classic and modern research papers in cosmology and general relativity. Although the author warns that his selection is subjective, the result is a highly useful list of references; for many papers, there are links to online versions on the arXiv.org e-print server. By Henk van Elst (Queen Mary, University of London). |
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Relativity, Space and Time - http://pgostrov.googlepages.com/e2.html
Science popularization article on the Theory of Relativity. |
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Numerical Relativity: Status and Prospects - http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0202055
Review article by Luis Lehner about the foundations of numerical relativity and recent progress in the field; particular attention is paid to simulations of black hole spacetimes. |
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Gravitational Waves and Black Holes: An Introduction to General Relativity - http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9704043
An introduction by Jan-Willem van Holten (NIKHEF, Amsterdam), based on lectures given at the University of Heidelberg in 1997. |
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General Relativity Simulation Contest - http://users.telenet.be/nicvroom/contest.htm
Attempt at a content aimed at the Internet community to write a simulation program, based on a simple algorithm incorporating the laws of general relativity, that can realistically simulate the behavior of black holes, binary stars, and the twin paradox. |
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Spacetime - General Relativity, Quantum Gravity, and the Existence of Time - http://www.ws5.com/spacetime/
A brief summary of Spacetime Theories at the beginning of the Third Millennium, and of the possibility that we live in an essentially atemporal universe. |