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Feynman Lectures on Gravitation by Richard P. Feynman, Fernando B. Morinigo, William G. Wagner, David Pines is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><i>The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation</i> are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little. These lectures represent a useful record of his viewpoints and some of his insights into gravity and its application to cosmology, superstars, wormholes, and gravitational waves at that particular time. The lectures also contain a number of fascinating digressions and asides on the foundations of physics and other issues.Characteristically, Feynman took and untraditional non-geometric approach to gravitation and general relativity based on the underlying quantum aspects of gravity. Hence, these lectures contain a unique pedagogical account of the development of Einstein’s general relativity as the inevitable result of the demand for a self-consistent theory of a massless spin-2 field (the graviton) coupled to the energy-momentum tensor of matter. This approach also demonstrates the intimate and fundamental connection between gauge invarianc

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Author
Richard P. Feynman, Fernando B. Morinigo, William G. Wagner, David Pines
Publisher
ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9780140284508
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Physics, Stem
Updated
2026-03-24

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