Albert Einstein’s Vision by Barry Parker, Prometheus, $28, ISBN 1591021863 Reviewed by Marcus Chown
THERE is barely a field of physics or astrophysics in which Einstein has not left an indelible mark. His ideas have echoed down the years, continually spawning new discoveries, from masers to black holes, from the big bang to the accelerated expansion of the universe, from Bose-Einstein condensates to gravitationally lensed quasars.
In Albert Einstein’s Vision, Barry Parker celebrates the remarkable fecundity of Einstein’s scientific imagination. He describes the great intellectual leaps of the special and general theories of relativity. And he discusses Einstein’s attacks on quantum theory – the probabilistic theory…
