Suggestions for Further Exploration
Books
For Everybody
- Einstein for Beginners by Michael McGuiness and Joseph Schwartz
- Black Holes & Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne
- Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes by Robert M. Wald
- The Cartoon Guide to Physics by Larry Gonick and Art Huffman
For the More Mathematically-Minded
- Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler
- A First Course in General Relativity by Bernard F. Schutz
- Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity by Sean Carroll
- Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity by James B. Hartle
- General Relativity by Robert M. Wald
Links
- Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars — A set of relativistically accurate movies showing what it would be like to fall into a black hole or a neutron star
- Space Time Travel — A site similar to the last one, showing relativity's effects on real pictures.
- Relativistic Optics at ANU — Relativistically accurate 3-D pictures and movies
- gmunu@mit — Relativity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- superstringtheory.com — A great site; like this one, but for superstring theory
- Cambridge Relativity — Cambridge University's General Relativity website
- Spacetime Wrinkles — The Numerical Relativity site for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- space.com — A nice site, updated daily with news about space and space exploration
- Hubble's Black Holes — A playful site with interactive animations, good for grades 6 and up
- NASA's "Universe" Site — A site highlighting NASA's explorations of the history and origins of our Universe
- Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology — The website for Astronomy 162 at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; an excellent, in-depth site for all areas of astronomy
- LISA — The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
- LIGO — The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
- Einstein At Home — A public project for distributed computing; allows users to help find real gravitational waves with a screen saver
- HyperPhysics — A very useful site, with information from all areas of physics
- The Center for Gravitational Wave Physics at Penn State University
- A photo album of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
- The news center for the Hubble Space Telescope
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