Spacetime Physics and Black Hole Physics

[vanhees71]

I just learned from the American Journal of Physics that the two books

Space Time Physics by Taylor and Wheeler

and

Exploring Black Holes by Tayor, Wheeler, and Bertschinger

are for free now! What a nice Christmas gift!

http://www.eftaylor.com/spacetimephysics/
http://www.eftaylor.com/exploringblackholes/

 

[Phylosopher]

I studied from Sean Carrol book and use misner-thorne-wheeler book as a reference, how would you compare these two to them?

 

[Frabjous]

Taylor and Wheeler are good books and very insightful, but lower level.

 

[vanhees71]

Misner-Thorne-Wheeler is THE reference for GR though it's pretty old and thus should be supplemented with some newer book if it comes to the topics where physicists have made tremendous progress over the years, particularly Cosmology and gravitational-wave research.

 

[dx]

Black Holes, information and the string theory revolution(ch14) is good.