Further Explorations

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