For
details see William L. and Peter L. Scott Burke, Special Relativity Primer
(Santa Cruz: Department of Physics --- photocopied manual,
1978); William L. Burke, Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology (Mill Valley,
California: University Science Books, 1980); Edwin F. & John Archibald
Wheeler Taylor, Spacetime Physics (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and
Company, 1963 (revised, 1992)). For a
short introduction see James Trefil and
Robert M. Hazen, The Sciences: An Integrated Approach, Second
Edition / Updated Edition (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000), Ch.
13. See also the elegant treatment in Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne and John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation (San Francisco: W. H.
Freeman and Company, 1973). For helpful insights see Mark W. Worthing, God,
Creation, and Contemporary Physics, Theology and the Sciences Series
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996), 23-26.
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