The Special Theory of Relativity

David Bohm

Taylor & Francis, Jan 14, 2004 - Philosophy - 256 pages

Based on his famous final year undergraduate lectures on theoretical physics at Birkbeck College, Bohm presents the theory of relativity as a unified whole, making clear the reasons which led to its adoption and explaining its basic meaning. With clarity and grace, he also reveals the limited truth of some of the "common sense" assumptions which make it difficult for us to appreciate its full implications.
With a new foreword by Basil Hiley, a close colleague of David Bohm's, The Special Theory of Relativity is an indispensable addition to the work of one of greatest physicists and thinkers of the twentieth century.

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User Review  - Erickson Tjoa - Goodreads

Very good book on special relativity, with sufficient mathematics to explain the theory and at the same time includes certain ideas of his own (presumably) as to how to make sense of the theory in ...

About the author

David Bohm (1917-1992). A close colleague of Einstein's at Princeton University after World War II, Bohm would himself go on to become one of the great physicists of the twentieth century. Persecuted for his radical politics during the era of the McCarthy hearings, he left the US in 1952 to teach first in Brazil and then in the UK. Popular Science/Physics/Philosophy

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Special Theory of Relativity
• Author: David Bohm
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2004
• ISBN: 0203203860, 9780203203866
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General