Book · 1973 · Science
Gravitation
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He's co-author of like the most famous relativity book there ever was! It's called Gravitation!
What they say about it
- Authored by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler“written by three authors Misner thorne and wheeler”5
- Famous relativity textbook“most famous relativity book there ever was”2
- Carrying the heavy book“only book you learn all about just by carrying it around”2
The best things said about it
Just cuz it's big an audacious big hairy and audacious is a book called gravitation mm-hmm and it's written by three authors Misner thorne and wheeler.
Neil deGrasse Tyson StarTalk Radio · Nov 2017 It was the only book where you learned about it just by carrying it around.
Neil deGrasse Tyson StarTalk Radio · Dec 2024 He wrote an encyclopedic book on gravity and black holes, which is about, you know, 1,200 pages just filled with equations!
Neil deGrasse Tyson StarTalk Radio · Jul 2024 Where you could just spend your whole life with a single textbook there's enough in that textbook yeah to really really stay measner thorne and wheeler gravitation you know is one of those or another one is.
Neal Stephenson Lex Fridman Podcast · Nov 2021 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, Kip Thorne, and John Wheeler is a massive, encyclopedic graduate textbook on Einstein's general theory of relativity and black hole physics. Neil deGrasse Tyson recommended the weighty volume on StarTalk Radio for advanced budding cosmologists, jokingly recalling that it was so large and filled with equations that students learned the subject simply by carrying it around. Kip Thorne appeared on the show to discuss the historical context of the text, explaining how the authors rushed to press in 1973 just as early gravitational wave concepts were emerging. Brian Greene joined the conversation to express his deep fondness for the book, sharing that he keeps two copies in his office. Hosts and guests alike consistently praised the work as the definitive, monumental reference guide in the field of relativistic physics.
Every mention
Neil deGrasse Tyson just cuz it's big an audacious big hairy and audacious is a book called gravitation mm-hmm and it's written… 6
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“but my first exposure to you was you were one of the three authors of this book called gravitation and we used to joke of course it was the only book where you learned about it just by carrying it around”
Discussed
“he's co-author of like the most famous relativity book there ever was okay it's called gravitation it's it has the proportions of a Manhattan Yellow Pages phone book okay well he certainly simplified the title didn't he well it's the only book you learn all about just by carrying it around right that's I get that yeah see what you”
Discussed
“But in terms of his book, he wrote an encyclopedic book on gravity and black holes, which is about, you know, 1,200 pages just filled with equations!”
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“So John Wheeler is one of the authors of this Misner-Thorne-Wheeler!”
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“In one of the most famous books ever written on gravity, it's called "Gravity."”
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“just cuz it's big an audacious big hairy and audacious is a book called gravitation mm-hmm and it's written by three authors Misner thorne and wheeler”
Brian Greene therefore I loved it when I was a kid wa with the misner thorn wheeler yes I have two copies of that in my… 1
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“therefore I loved it when I was a kid wa with the misner thorn wheeler yes I have two copies of that in my office two copies”
Kip Thorne and so in this book which was published in 1973 we went to press just after Ray Weiss wrote his seminal pap… 1
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“and so in this book which was published in 1973 we went to press just after Ray Weiss wrote his seminal paper I had not yet uh really studied that paper fully uh but I I just knew uh that this was crazy and so it describes in a few words Ray's idea in here”
Neal Stephenson where you could just spend your whole life with a single textbook there's enough in that textbook yeah to r… 1
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“where you could just spend your whole life with a single textbook there's enough in that textbook yeah to really really stay measner thorne and wheeler gravitation you know is one of those or another one is”
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“Okay, uh, he's co-author of like the most famous relativity book there ever was! It's called Gravitation!”
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“In this book published in 1973, we went to press just after Ray Weiss wrote his seminal paper, I had not yet really studied that paper fully.”