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Charles William Misner (/ ˈ m ɪ s n ər /; June 13, 1932 – July 24, 2023) was an American physicist and one of the authors of Gravitation. His specialties included general relativity and cosmology. His work has also provided early foundations for studies of quantum gravity and numerical relativity.
Charles W. Misner (Jackson, 13 de junho de 1932 – 24 de julho de 2023) [1] foi um físico estadunidense. Referências
25 de jul. de 2023 · Charles W. Misner, an eminent theorist and co-author of the classic textbook Gravitation, died on July 24, 2023. He was 91. Misner received a bachelor’s degree at the University of Notre Dame before his doctoral studies at Princeton University with John Archibald Wheeler.
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After a brief review of special relativity and flat spacetime, physics in curved spacetime is introduced and many aspects of general relativity are covered; particularly about the Einstein field equations and their implications, experimental confirmations, and alternatives to general relativity. Segments of history are included to summarize the ideas leading up to Einstein's theory. The book concludes by questioning the nature of spacetime and suggesting possible frontiers of research. Althou...
Sign and unit conventions
MTW uses the − + + + sign convention, and discourages the use of the + + + + metric with an imaginary time coordinate i c t {\displaystyle ict} . In the front endpapers, the sign conventions for the Einstein field equationsare established and the conventions used by many other authors are listed. The book also uses geometrized units, in which the gravitational constant G {\displaystyle G} and speed of light c {\displaystyle c} are each set to 1. The back end papers contain a table of unit con...
The book has been reprinted in English 24 times. Hardback and softcover editions have been published. The original citation is 1. Misner, Charles W.; Thorne, Kip S.; Wheeler, John Archibald (1973), Gravitation, San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, ISBN 978-0-7167-0344-0. It has also been translated into other languages, including Russian (in three volumes...
The book is still considered influential in the physics community, with generally positive reviews, but with some criticism of the book's length and presentation style. To quote Ed Ehrlich: James Hartlenotes in his book: Sean M. Carrollstates in his own introductory text: Pankaj Sharan writes: Ray D'Inverno suggests: Many texts on general relativit...
Kaiser, David (March 2012). "A Tale of Two Textbooks: Experiments in Genre" (PDF). Isis. 103 (1). The University of Chicago Press: 126–138. doi:10.1086/664983. hdl:1721.1/82907. PMID 22655343.Braginskii, V. B.; Novikov, I. D. (March–April 1975). "C. Misner, K. Thorne, J. Wheeler. Gravitation: Reviewed by V. B. Braginskii and I. D. Novikov". Astronomicheskii Zhurnal. 52: 447–449. Bibcode...24 de out. de 2017 · Charles W. Misner is professor emeritus of physics at the University of Maryland. Kip S. Thorne , co-winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics, is the Feynman Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
In Kip Thorne. With C.W. Misner and John Archibald Wheeler, Thorne wrote Gravitation (1973), which became the standard graduate school text on general relativity. He also wrote a popular book about the subject, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy (1994). He was the science adviser and an….
Charles W. Misner. Personal: Born Jackson, Michigan, 13 June 1932; married 13 June 1959; four children; Roman Catholic. Education: B.S. Physics, Notre Dame 1952 (mathematics mentor Arnold Ross); Ph.D., Princeton 1957 (mentor John Archibald Wheeler). University Positions: Princeton 1956-63, University of Maryland 1963-2000, now Emeritus.
