This book tells the story of the experimental aspects of relativity. As Will writes in his preface, "It is about an intensive twenty-year effort, beginning around 1960, to check the predictions of general relativity accurately, and to find new predictions to check." The main question posed by the book— Was Einstein Right?—is answered by looking at the experimental evidence amassed over the last 80 years.
Will begins by confronting the myth that relativity is understood by only a few people. Everyone wants to understand but the problem is that existing literature either tells parables about ants living on apples or shows that relativity is "just another spin two classical field." By solidly planting his feet in the domain of experiments, Will explains relativity by illustrating the differences in the physical worlds described by Einstein and Newton. And in doing so, he hacks away at the belief that Einstein was an ...
