The Ninth Marcel Grossman Meeting: On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relavtivity, Gravitation, and Relativistic Field Theories (3 Volume Set) [Hardcover]

Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Rela (Author), Robert T. Jantzen (Editor), Remo Ruffini (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 9812380108 | ISBN-13: 978-9812389954 | Publication Date: December 2002

In 1975 the Marcel Grossmann Meetings were established by Remo Ruffini and Abdus Salam to provide a forum for discussion of recent advances in gravitation, general relativity, and relativistic field theories. In these meetings, which are held once every three years, every aspect of research is emphasized - mathematical foundations, physical predictions, and numerical and experimental investigations. The major objective of these meetings is to facilitate exchange among scientists, so as to deepen our understanding of the structure of space-time and to review the status of both the ground-based and the space-based experiments aimed at testing the theory of gravitation. The Marcel Grossmann Meetings have grown under the guidance of an International Organizing Committee and a large International Coordinating Committee. The first two meetings, MG1 and MG2, were held in Trieste (1975, 1979). A most memorable MG3 (1982) was held in Shanghai and represented the first truly international scientific meeting in China after the so-called Cultural Revolution. Three years later MG4 was held in Rome (1985). It was at MG4 that "astroparticle physics" was born. MGIXMM was organized by the International Organizing Committee composed of D. Blair, Y. Choquet-Bruhat, D. Christodoulou, T. Damour, J. Ehlers, F. Everitt, Fang Li Zhi, S. Hawking, Y. Ne'eman, R. Ruffini (Chair), H. Sato, R. Sunyaev and S. Weinberg. Essential to the organization was an International Coordinating Committee of 135 members from scientific institutions of 54 countries. MGIXMM was attended by 997 scientists of 69 nationalities. It took place on 2-8 July 2000 at the University of Rome, Italy. The scientific programs included 60 plenary and review talks, as well as talks in 88 parallel sessions. The three volumes of the proceedings of MGIXMM present a rather authoritative view of relativistic astrophysics, which is becoming one of the priorities in scientific endeavour. The papers appearing in these volumes cover all aspects of gravitation, from mathematical issues to recent observations and experiments. Their intention is to give a complete picture of our current understanding of gravitational theory at the turn of the millennium. The Marcel Grossmann Individual Awards for this meeting were presented to Cecille and Bryce DeWitt, Riccardo Giacconi and Roger Penrose, while the Institutional Award went to the Solvay Institute, accepted on behalf of the Institute by Jacques Solvay and Ilya Prigogine. The acceptance speeches are also included in the proceedings.

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...This is monument to all of relativity at the dawn of the third millennium... -- Yvonne Choquet Bruhat, Member of the French Academy

I am impressed that some of the problems we are studying are close to the problems dicussed in various articles. -- Ilya Prigogine

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• Hardcover: 2748 pages
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc (December 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9812380108
• ISBN-13: 978-9812389954
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.3 x 6.5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Infinite thumbs up!!!!, May 19, 2011

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This review is from: The Ninth Marcel Grossman Meeting: On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relavtivity, Gravitation, and Relativistic Field Theories (3 Volume Set) (Hardcover)

I got introduced to those books by simply looking at them and marvel at their beauty at the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Engineering at the University of Iceland a little less than 2 years ago.
I was fortunate enough to remember the look of their cover and take a good look at them but never got the opportunity to behold the wonders that are inside - that is about to change, that is if someone out there knows someone who could be kind enough to handle me over some copies.
Well I must admit that I wish I was rich enough to buy books like this - but as of present I guess I am not. I can use that nonetheless - most people don't like the idea of not being rich because they will think that that means they are not rich per ce.
Well not quite. There may be a moment in my life when I get lucky to acquire copies - but I'd strictly wish to get a hand over hardcover copies, not softcover or paperbacks.
I'd want to keep copies of those books - all of them from the first symposium to the ninth and the last lectures, because I'd like to know what was talked about at that time.
Even though I am a UFO - conspiracy believer and so on, it does not refrain me from enjoying reading works written by people who lived in a time when it was considered politically incorrect to talk much openly about the existence of extraterrestrial life or visitations to this planet by people from other planetary systems.
None of those books are, predicteably so, about such matters - unless there is some information in them.
What I am thus looking for when it comes to try to get a copy of those books about Einstein's thoughts on the nature of relativity - is his ideas, his beliefs, and those of those who came after him, about such ideas from a philosophical perspective.
And thus I will not be disappointed if I find out some material is missing from those books since things have changed so much as of their publication.
Those lectures go somehow right into the days of my childhood since they began in the late 1970's and I am born in 1977 and the year 1978 pops up very frequently in all of them.
Those books matter somehow very much to me - as if they are speaking to me, asking me to buy themselves but when it is the right time, and I am kindly asking anyone out there who may wish to get rid of their copies, if they could give them to me or if they know of a place where I could get those beautiful works at a cheap prize.
Hail these Marcel Grossman meetings - what would history be like if they had never occured?