TY  - BOOK
AU  - Feynman,Richard P
AU  - Morinigo,Fernando B.
AU  - Wagner,William G.
AU  - Hatfield,Brian
TI  - Feynman lectures on gravitation 
SN  - 0201627345
U1  - 530.11 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Reading, Mass
PB  - Addison-Wesley
KW  - Gravitation
KW  - Quantum gravity
N2  - The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation 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 an 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 theory of 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 invariance and the principle of equivalence
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