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Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most exciting and active branches of current research. In conference after conference the view is expressed that cosmology today is where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discoveries just waiting to happen. Also gravitational wave detectors, presently under construction or in the testing phase, promise to open up an entirely novel field of physics. It is to take into account such recent developments, as well as to improve the basic text, that this second edition has been undertaken. The most affected is the last part on cosmology, but there are smaller additions, corrections, and additional exercises throughout. The books basic purpose is to make relativity come alive conceptually. Hence the emphasis on the foundations and the logical subtleties rather than on the mathematics or the detailed experiments per se. Aided by some 300 exercises, the book promotes a deep understanding and the confidence to tackle any fundamental relativistic problem.

Relativity (Physics) --- Cosmology --- 530.12 --- 530.12 Relativity principle --- Relativity principle --- Gravitation --- Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics --- Space and time --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Cosmology. --- Relativity (Physics).

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530.12 --- 530.12 Relativity principle --- Relativity principle --- Ether drift --- Mass energy relations --- Relativity theory, Special --- Restricted theory of relativity --- Special theory of relativity --- Special relativity (Physics) --- Relativity (Physics) --- Relativité restreinte (Physique)

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Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry introduces the theory of twistors, and studies in detail how the theory of twistors and 2-spinors can be applied to the study of space-time. Twistors have, in recent years, attracted increasing attention as a mathematical tool and as a means of gaining new insights into the structure of physical laws. This volume also includes a comprehensive treatment of the conformal approach to space-time infinity with results on general-relativistic mass and angular momentum, a detailed spinorial classification of the full space-time curvature tensor, and an account of the geometry of null geodesics.

Geometry, Differential. --- Mathematical physics. --- Space and time. --- Spinor analysis. --- Spinor analysis --- Geometry, Differential --- Mathematical physics --- Space and time --- Space of more than three dimensions --- Space-time --- Space-time continuum --- Space-times --- Spacetime --- Time and space --- Fourth dimension --- Infinite --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Space sciences --- Time --- Beginning --- Hyperspace --- Relativity (Physics) --- Physical mathematics --- Physics --- Differential geometry --- Calculus of spinors --- Spinor calculus --- Spinors, Theory of --- Algebra --- Wave mechanics --- Calculus of tensors --- Vector analysis --- Mathematics --- Analyse spinorielle --- Espace et temps --- Géométrie différentielle --- Physique mathématique --- Geometry --- Theory of relativity. Unified field theory --- Space-time model --- Screws, Theory of. --- Analyse spinorielle. --- Espace-temps. --- Théorie des torseurs.