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The September 2004 issue of Scientific American included a series of articles on tests of the limits of relativity and the kinds of theories that might supersede it.
Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004) gives a recent explanation of the quest to make string theory the next revolution in our view of the physical world.
Marcia Bartusiak traces the quest to detect gravitational waves in Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time (Berkley Publishing, 2003).
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(2006). The view from Einstein’s shoulders. In: The Sky at Einstein’s Feet. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-37622-4_9
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