Unusually Special Relativity

Iconoclastic physics professor Andrzej Dragan presents a unique overview of special relativity in a straightforward, progressive manner that is accessible to high school students and beyond. He covers topics such as Lorentz transformations, Wigner rotations, Thomas precession, non-inertial accelerated reference frames, event horizons, curved spacetime, and static black holes, and explains how they relate to Einstein's groundbreaking theory. The book is based on a course taught by Dragan and is acclaimed by students for its comprehensive and elegant writing, which includes insightful paradoxes and riddles without any complicated math.

Format: Hardback
Length: 204 pages
Publication date: 09 December 2021
Publisher: World Scientific Europe Ltd

Iconoclastic physics professor and artist Andrzej Dragan presents a unique feast of knowledge on special relativity in a straightforward, progressive manner that even a savvy high school student could follow.

Encompassing the derivation of Lorentz transformations to Wigner rotations and Thomas precession; from non-inertial accelerated reference frames to event horizons, curved spacetime, and static black holes; and from the Doppler effect to relativistic structure of electromagnetism, Dragan peels back the enigmatic layers of modern physics to enable a deeper understanding of Einstein's groundbreaking theory.

Comprehensive and elegantly written, full of insightful apparent paradoxes and riddles, but without any complicated math, Dragan's unique overview takes the reader well beyond the orthodox verses of standard Special Relativity to the bleeding edge of new-fangled superluminal apocrypha and their relation to Quantum Theory.

The book is based on a course on Special Relativity and acclaimed by students taught by Dragan, who is a leader of a research group on Relativistic Quantum Information theory at the University of Warsaw and the National University of Singapore.

ISBN-13: 9781800610804