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Subject: General Relativity
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Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 19:15:00 EST
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From:  Alan R. Katz <KATZ@USC-ISIF>

I agree that Wheeler and Taylor's "Spacetime Physics" is really excellent
and explains most of the paradoxes of Relativity.

HOWEVER, DO NOT EVER try to read Gravitation, by Misner, Thorne, and
Wheeler to aid in understanding things.  It is really bizarre and very
hard to make heads or tales of, even if you know General Relativity!!
(It is, however, a great book to skim through, and certain parts are 
 interesting.  It is also a great book to impress everyone with, being
 extremely massive.)

One of the best General Relativity books I've seen is the one by Weinberg
called something like "General Relativity."  It actually developes 
much of the math you need, and covers Special Relativity, Gravity Waves,
and much of cosmology.  It too is a graduate school level text, but 
General Relativity is really a graduate level subject.

(Also, Adler, Bazin, Shiff (unsure of the exact names, but something like
 that) is also very good, and is more elementary than Weinberg.)


				Alan

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