Spacetime & Relativity

How does time pass more slowly as you travel faster? Do speeding objects really get shorter and heavier? In this brilliant pocket book, illustrated with numerous worked examples and helpful original diagrams, physicist Oliver Linton reveals the truly astonishing nature of the spacetime continuum we all inhabit.

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Oliver Linton has had a life-long interest in computers and played a significant role in the development of the use of personal computers in education. He is also author of Fractals, Mathematical Functions and Numbers in this series.