Relativity Lite

Title Page	1
Copyright Page	5
Contents	6
Author’s Note	8
Chapter 1. To c or Not to c	10
It’s About Time!	11
Did You Ever Wish You Had More Time?	12
How Does This Relate to Me?	14
Relativity Bites	17
There Are Cops, You Know!	21
Chapter 2. Mixmaster Universe	28
The Low-Velocity Limit	28
Into the Mix	32
Is Nothing Sacred?	35
Chapter 3. A Trip to Alpha Centauri	38
Saucer Frame	43
A Smoothly Accelerated Saucer Frame	47
Chapter 4. Gravity Lite	52
Puttin’ on a Little Weight	52
The Principle of Equivalence	54
Black Holes	63
Gravitational Time Dilation	68
Gravitational Waves	73
Chapter 5. Cosmology	76
The Big Bang	76
The Hubble–Lemaître Law	80
But Is the Universe a Four-Dimensional Sphere?	83
The Bang	85
An Open and Shut Case	86
Why Would the Higgs Field Produce a Negative Pressure, and Why Would This Oppose Gravity?	89
Symmetry Breaking	90
Breaking the Higgs Symmetry	92
Is There Evidence of Inflation?	93
Which Universe Do We Live In?	98
Index	112
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