The head of MIT's Science Writing Program recounts the story of the 50-year-search by the world's top scientists for the missing planet Vulcan and Albert Einstein's remarkable proof of the Theory of Relativity, in a unique volume that brings to life one of the strangest episodes in the history of science. Includes six charts. Illustrations.
The story of the fifty-year search by the worlds top scientists for a missing planet, and Albert Einsteins remarkable proof of the theory of relativity, which showed once and for all that the planet never existed in the first place.