Spacetime and Geometry:
Additional Resources

This page is still under construction, sorry for the mess. I will try to update or remove links as they evolve, so please let me know if a link dies.

Jump to:

• General-Interest Sites
• Online Notes and Tutorials
• Research and News Sources
• Web Guides

• General-Interest Sites
• Einstein -- Image and Impact, AIP
  An exhibit on the life and times of Einstein. See also Albert Einstein Online, and the Einstein Archives Online.
• Einstein speaks
  Listen to Einstein explain his most famous formula.
• LIGO, VIRGO, GEO, TAMA, ACIGA, AIGO, LISA
  Gravitational-wave observatories.
• Falling Into a Black Hole, Andrew Hamilton
  
• History of Special Relativity and of General Relativity
  
• Spacetime Wrinkles, NCSA
  
• GR Tensor
  A symbolic tensor manipulation program. Originally developed for Maple, a Mathematica version is now available. There is even a java version you can run remotely.
• Gravitational Lensing, Peter Newbury
  
• Beyond Einstein
  NASA program to explore the boundaries of relativity.
• Superstringtheory.com
  The official string theory web site. (Look, I just link to them, I don't come up with the names.)
• sci.physics.research, sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics
  Usenet discussion groups.

• Online Notes and Tutorials

See also the bibliography page for actual books.

• A No-Nonsense Introduction to General Relativity, Sean Carroll (postscript, also available in pdf)
  A very short (24 pages) but serious overview of the workings of GR.
• Lecture Notes on General Relativity, Sean Carroll (postscript, also in html)
  The notes on which the book was based.
• General Relativity Tutorial, John Baez
  
• Relativity FAQ
  
• MIT Physics 8.962, Ed Bertschinger, MIT
  
• Black Hole Lecture Notes, Paul Townsend
  
• Advanced Course in General Relativity, Eric Poisson (pdf)
  
• Tensors and Relativity, Peter Dunsby
  
• Introduction to General Relativity, Gerard 't Hooft (postscript)
  
• Introduction to Differential Geometry and General Relativity, Stefan Waner
  
• Lecture Notes on General Relativity, Matthias Blau (gzipped postscript).
  
• Applications of Classical Physics, Roger Blandford and Kip Thorne
  An illuminating overview of topics in classical physics by two masters. (Advanced undergraduate level; GR is covered briefly at the end.)
• Gravitational Waves: A Web-Based Course, Kip Thorne
  A detailed introduction to gravitational wave production and detection. Includes notes, videos of lectures, exercises, and supplemental material.
• Fields, Warren Siegel
  An introduction to quantum field theory, including discussions of supersymmetry and string theory.
• Cosmology Tutorial and Relativity Tutorial, Ned Wright
  
• CMB Tutorial, Wayne Hu
  A multi-level introduction to cosmological perturbation theory and microwave background anisotropies.
• Review Articles, Sean Carroll
  A collection of reviews (mostly by other people) on field theory, relativity, and cosmology.
• Relativity: The Special And General Theory, Albert Einstein
  From 1920, a semi-popular exposition by Einstein himself, complete online.

• Research and News Sources
• gr-qc at arxiv.org
  The indispensable preprint server, containing essentially all respectable contemporary research papers. "gr-qc" stands for "general relativity and quantum cosmology"; look for related servers in astrophysics (astro-ph), high-energy theory and string theory (hep-th), and mathematics (math).
• SPIRES High-Energy Physics Literature Database
  A service which not only indexes papers, but keeps track of references and citations. Nominally devoted to high-energy physics, but gradually expanding to keep track of gravitation and astrophysics.
• Living Reviews in Relativity
  Online review articles on all aspects of relativity.
• General Relativity News from Malcolm MacCallum at Queen Mary
  
• Matters of Gravity
  A newsletter for the APS Topical Group on Gravitation, edited by Jorge Pullin.

• Web Guides
• Relativity on the World Wide Web, UC Riverside
  A carefully reviewed and annotated list of links, originally prepared by Chris Hillman and maintained by John Baez.
• Relativity Bookmarks, Syracuse University
  Includes a long list of research groups in GR.
• Relativity and Black Hole Links, University of Colorado