‎ALXANDRE DUMAS‎
‎BLACK‎

‎Past-Future Asymmetry of the Gravitational Field of a Point Particle. - [INTRODUCING THE EVENT-HORIZON AND INITIATED BLACK HOLE RESEARCH]‎

‎Lancaster PA, American Physical Society, 1958. Royal8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. In ""The Physical Review"", Volume 110, Second Series, Number 4, May 15. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 965-967. [Entire issue: Pp. 793-997].‎

‎First printing of Finkelstein's landmark paper in which he identified the Schwarzschild surface as an event horizon, ""a perfect unidirectional membrane: causal influences can cross it in only one direction"". This did not strictly contradict Oppenheimer's results, but extended them to include the point of view of infalling observers. Finkelstein's solution extended the Schwarzschild solution for the future of observers falling into a black hole. This paper influenced Penrose and Landau and essentially triggered the black-hole research.""Many prominent doubting physicists were reluctant to accept the concept of a black hole, in large measurement because of the anomaly that the implosion of a star cannot be observed. Yet a particle inexorably falls into the center at r = 0 just as time marches on - because in general relativity time and space exchange roles inside a black hole (which has the making of another paradox). One solution, or at least reconciliation, of the observational black hole paradox was achieved only in the last decades. David Finkelstein (in the present paper) ascertained a new reference frame of framework for Schwarzschild space-time. Finkelstein's reference frame simultaneously covered all regions of space-time from the imploding star to distant reaches of space. This all-embracing reference frame is now called the Eddington-Finkelstein frame"" (Kreitler, Trends in Black Hole research, P. 6). ‎

‎BLACK'S (Adam and Charles) PICTURESQUE TOURIST OF SCOTLAND -1857- ‎

‎Edinburgh black 1857 1 in-12 pleine percale 1 volume, reliure pleine percaline verte grand in-douze éditeur (hard-back percale in-12 editor) (11 X 17,5 cm) (Green publishers cloth with blindstamped decorative frame to both boards, gilt titles and decoration to front and spine) cartonnage éditeur (hard-back editor) à plaques spéciales monochromes pour le dos et les plats (with specials covers editor for the spine and the cover), dos long (spine without raised bands) titre frappé or (gilt title) décoration avec plaques spéciales or et à froid, plats idem, Texte en Anglais , orné de trés nombreuses illustrations in et hors-texte en noir (dont certaines sur acier) + cartes et plans hors-texte en noir et en couleurs (dont certaines dépliantes, [XXXVI + 602 + 64 (pages de pubs illustrées diverses)] pages, 1857 Edinburgh Adam and Charles BLACK Editors, ‎

‎30ème edition, Notes : Index (de la page 587 à la page 602).....Complet collationné...........RARE...............en bon état (good condition). ‎

‎The Enigma of Time Compiled and Introduced by P.T. Landsberg , (1. Irreversibility : The symmetry of time in physics - Irreversibility - Time's arrow and external perturbations -A matter of time - 2. Cosmology and electrodynamics : The asymmetry of time - New ideas of space and time - Thermodynamics, cosmology and the physical constants - 3. Quantum mechanics including Black holes : Time reversal symmetry violation and the H-theorem - Time reversal asymmetry as the fundamental level and its reflection on the problem of the arrow of time - The arrow of time and quantum mechanics - Singularities and time-asymmetry - Black holes thermodynamics and time asymmetry - 4. Time in the arts : Moment and movement in art - Evolution, myth and poetic vision)‎

‎Adam Hilger Ltd, Bristol and Boston Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1985 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon paperback, editor's black printed wrappers, illustrated by an astrophysical photography, title in yellow grand In-8 1 vol. - 260 pages‎

‎many black and white illustrations Reprinted edition, 1985 (1st was 1982) Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of Authors, Preface and Acknowledgments, xii, Text, 248 pages - Introduction - Minor comments on some of the reprinted papers - 1. Irreversibility : G.N. Lewis : The symmetry of time in physics - E. Schrödinger : Irreversibility - P. Morrison : Time's arrow and external perturbations - P.T. Landsberg : A matter of time - 2. Cosmology and electrodynamics : F. Hoyle : The asymmetry of time - P.A.M. Dirac : New ideas of space and time - P.T. Landsberg : Thermodynamics, cosmology and the physical constants - 3. Quantum mechanics including Black holes : A. Aharony : Time reversal symmetry violation and the H-theorem - Y. Ne'eman : Time reversal asymmetry as the fundamental level and its reflection on the problem of the arrow of time - A.J. Leggett : The arrow of time and quantum mechanics - R. Penrose : Singularities and time-asymmetry - P.C.W. Davies : Black holes thermodynamics and time asymmetry - 4. Time in the arts : E.H. Gombrich : Moment and movement in art - W.J. Ong : Evolution, myth and poetic vision - Some books on time - Glossary and index near fine copy, no markings‎

‎Gravity's Fatal Attraction - Black Holes in the Universe‎

‎Scientific American Library Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1996 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's full black clothes, no dust-jacket In-4 carré 1 vol. - 253 pages‎

‎many colour illustrations and few in black and white Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, vii, Text, 246 pages - Gravity triumphant - Stars and their fates - Black Holes in our backyard - Galaxies and their nuclei - Quasars and Kin - Cosmic jets - Black holes in hibernation - Checking up on Einstein - A Universe of Black holes - Further readings, sources, index no dust-jacket, else fine copy, no markings‎

‎A lot of 8 books together : Underwater fishes. (1) CARRINGTON, Richard: A biography of the Sea - The story of the world ocean its animal and plant populations, and its influence on human history, London, Chatto & Windus, 1960, 286 p., illustrated in black and white,(2) TRAVIS, William: Beyond the reefs, London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1959, 221 p., illustrated in black and white,(3) LILLIE, Harry R.: The path through Penguin City, London, Ernest Benn Limited, 1955, 302 p., illustrated in black and white,(4) DIOLÉ, Philippe: The undersea adventure, London, Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1953, 218 p., ill. in colors and in black and white,(5) NICHOLS, John T.; BARTSCH, Paul: Fishes and Shells of the pacific world, New York, The Macmillan Company, 201 p., + 16 plates, (6) CLARKE, Arthur C.: The Treasure of the great reef - A thrilling account of a successful treasure hunt in the dangerous waters of the Indian Ocean, London, Arthur Barker Limited, 1964, 194 p., 53 photographies in black and white,(7) MAXWELL, Gavin: Harpoon at a venture, London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952, 272 p. + 82 photographies in black and white, fox marks,(8) CARR, Archie: The windward Road - Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores, London, Robert Hale Limited, 1957, 223 p., some fox marks. ‎

‎ in-8vo, Guggisberg stamp on first fly-leaf, clothbound, good general condition.‎