Overview
- Presents a theoretical description that solves all outstanding questions and puzzles in dynamics and relativity
- Is a widely accessible yet deep and complete account of relativity, precision time, and propagation of light
- Is widely accessible accurate and practically useful description of GPS atomic time and relativity corrections
Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 209)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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First Principles and Their Empirical Core
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Front Matter
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The New Physical World of Cosmic Relativity
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Twin Paradox and its True Resolution
- Einstein's Resolution of the Twin Paradox
- Atomic Clocks and Clocks in the GPS
- Time Dilation of Moving Clocks
- Gravitational Time Dilation
- Equivalence Principles
- Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
- Cosmic Gravity
- Universal Cosmic Time
- Expansion of the Universe
- The One-way Relative Velocity of Light and Gravitational Waves
- Absolute Space and Absolute Time
- Quantum Spin and Gravity
- The Origin of Inertia and the Mach's Principle
- The Quantum Hall Effects
- Theories of Special Relativity and General Relativity
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
His research interests are experimental and theoretical aspects of foundational issues in gravity and quantum physics, including quantum optics. His experimental expertise spans a wide range of studies employing torsion balances, interferometers, laser cooled atoms, and Bose-Einstein Condensates. He was part of the team that pioneered gravitation experiments in India, in a specially constructed underground laboratory. He set up the laser-cooling laboratory at TIFR, Mumbai, in which the first Bose-Einstein condensate in India was produced and studied in an optical trap. His major theoretical contributions are a new paradigm for dynamics and relativity consistent with the gravity of the matter in the Universe (Cosmic Relativity), and the discovery of a universal action mechanics that solves the vexing foundational problems of quantum mechanics, including the quantum measurement problem.
Unnikrishnan is a key member and a proposer-scientist of the LIGO-India project for setting up an advanced gravitational wave detector in India. He is a member of the global LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) for research in gravitational waves, and shared the Breakthrough prize in physics and the Gruber prize in cosmology with the LSC for the detection of gravitational waves.
Unnikrishnan has published over 250 research papers and articles covering several areas of fundamental physics, especially gravitation and quantum physics. This includes also several papers addressing some core foundational and philosophical issues in physics pertaining to locality and causality, unobservables in physics, space-time ontology, and mind-matter problems. His first monograph "Gravity's Time", on the nature of physical time and its relation to cosmic gravity, was published in April 2022.
Unnikrishnan's major interests outside physics research are music and films, especially their structure and process of creation. He has been a columnist, expressing views on science and society, for Malayalam news magazines.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Relativity in the Gravitational Universe
Book Subtitle: The Theory of Cosmic Relativity and Its Experimental Evidence
Authors: C. S. Unnikrishnan
Series Title: Fundamental Theories of Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08935-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08934-3Published: 05 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08937-4Published: 06 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08935-0Published: 04 November 2022
Series ISSN: 0168-1222
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6425
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 485
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 81 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Cosmology