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10. Medieval Torture Rack
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Marcia Bartusiak
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- 1. It Is Therefore Possible That the Largest Luminous Bodies in the Universe May Be Invisible 1
- 2. Newton, Forgive Me 16
- 3. One Would Then Find Oneself . . . in a Geometrical Fairyland 35
- 4. There Should Be a Law of Nature to Prevent a Star from Behaving in This Absurd Way! 44
- 5. I’ll Show Those Bastards 60
- 6. Only Its Gravitational Field Persists 70
- 7. I Could Not Have Picked a More Exciting Time in Which to Become a Physicist 87
- 8. It Was the Weirdest Spectrum I’d Ever Seen 110
- 9. Why Don’t You Call It a Black Hole? 122
- 10. Medieval Torture Rack 142
- 11. Whereas Stephen Hawking Has Such a Large Investment in General Relativity and Black Holes and Desires an Insurance Policy 148
- 12. Black Holes Ain’t So Black 163
- Epilogue 175
- Timeline 183
- Notes 189
- Bibliography 209
- Acknowledgments 224
- Index 227
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- 1. It Is Therefore Possible That the Largest Luminous Bodies in the Universe May Be Invisible 1
- 2. Newton, Forgive Me 16
- 3. One Would Then Find Oneself . . . in a Geometrical Fairyland 35
- 4. There Should Be a Law of Nature to Prevent a Star from Behaving in This Absurd Way! 44
- 5. I’ll Show Those Bastards 60
- 6. Only Its Gravitational Field Persists 70
- 7. I Could Not Have Picked a More Exciting Time in Which to Become a Physicist 87
- 8. It Was the Weirdest Spectrum I’d Ever Seen 110
- 9. Why Don’t You Call It a Black Hole? 122
- 10. Medieval Torture Rack 142
- 11. Whereas Stephen Hawking Has Such a Large Investment in General Relativity and Black Holes and Desires an Insurance Policy 148
- 12. Black Holes Ain’t So Black 163
- Epilogue 175
- Timeline 183
- Notes 189
- Bibliography 209
- Acknowledgments 224
- Index 227