Gravitation (MTW) Misner Thorne Wheeler - 50 years (RIP) C.W.Misner

[robphy]

TL;DR Summary

The International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (http://www.isgrg.org/)
celebrates the 50-year anniversary of Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler.
Misner died in 2023... I included some associated links.

From the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (http://www.isgrg.org/)

there were some 50-year anniversary celebrations and a 100th birthday celebration:
This post is primarily about items related to "Gravitation" by Misner Thorne Wheeler.

• Go to ISGRG to see
  • a 50-year anniversary celebration for "The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time" by Hawking and Ellis ( video ) - G. Ellis and A. Ashtekar
  • a 100th-birthday celebration for Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat [birthday today Dec 29, 2023] ( conference intro ; https://www.esi.ac.at/events/e526/ links to videos)

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  Gravitation (MTW) Misner Thorne Wheeler [on May 3, 2023] - 50 year anniversary
  
  0:00:00 Emanuele Berti's introductions
  0:04:42 David Kaiser's presentation (slides http://www.isgrg.org/Kaiser.MTW(May2023).pdf)
  0:23:39 Kip Thorne's presentation (slides http://www.isgrg.org/KipSlides.pdf)
  1:09:05 Charles Misner's remarks
  1:18:01 Q&A
  

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  (Not associated with ISGRG...)
  
  Charles W Misner passed away on July 24, 2023.
  https://umdphysics.umd.edu/about-us/news/department-news/1893-misner.html
  
  https://umdphysics.umd.edu/misnersymposium.html
• Misner Symposium Kip Thorne - The Huge Impact that Charlie and His Students Have Had on Me (slides)
• Misner Symposium Ted Jacobson - Charlie Misner and the "beauty and intelligibility of the universe" (slides)
• Misner Symposium Remarks and Reminiscences pt. 1- (@0s) Tim Misner, (@2m42s) Bei-Lok Hu, (@14m41s) Neil Comins, (@22m20s) Jim Isenberg, (@29m05s) Jim Nester, (@31m11) Chris Stephens
  Misner Symposium Remarks and Reminiscences pt. 2 - (@0m30s) Les Fishbone, (@11m45s) Bob Wald, (@16m13s) Frank Tipler, and (@26m25s) Philip Yasskin, others from UMD, (@1h04m42s) Ted Jacobson
• 16. Ch. Misner - Puzzle Pieces Do any fit?
  Hawking Radiation Conference | August 2015
  
  
  http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~misner/cwmpubs.pdf
  https://history.aip.org/phn/11607002.html
  
  unofficial lists:
  https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/C.-Misner/69873830
  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Charles-W-Misner-2
  
  Misner on Wheeler (Erice, 2006) (slides)
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300000788_Erice_MisnerOnWheeler_--_slides

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  (Not associated with ISGRG...)
  
  John A Wheeler passed away on April 13, 2008
  John Wheeler - Origins of the book 'Gravitation' with Thorne and Misner (96/130) [view on YouTube to see the entire playlist]
  
  
  J.A. Wheeler Mathematics Genealogy
  J.A. Wheeler Academic Tree
  
  https://history.aip.org/phn/11503001.html
  https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/graphics/john-archibald-wheeler-papers-1880-2008
  https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/graphics/relativity-notebooks-1952-1973

 

[bob012345]

Yes, the book continues to bend spacetime on my bookshelf.

 

[Hill]

Yes, the book continues to bend spacetime on my bookshelf.

I got tired of that and gave myself New Year's present, the Kindle version.

 

[bob012345]

I got tired of that and gave myself New Year's present, the Kindle version.

Either way, reading it is like getting sucked into a black hole.

 

[Hill]

Either way, reading it is like getting sucked into a black hole.

Judging by the time it takes to get to the singularity, it is really super-supermassive black hole.

 

[Nugatory]

Yes, the book continues to bend spacetime on my bookshelf.

I bought my copy while still in college, 1978 or thereabouts. My roommate looked at it sitting on the table, picked it up, set it down again, then said "How convenient - all the theory and also a practical demonstration".

 

[PAllen]

The joke I heard was that MTW shows the violation of the equivalence principle - it falls faster than everything else.