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Here are recommended links for more information about relativity and Albert Einstein.
Physics
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Space-time travel pages
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Online-articles, images and movies presenting visualizations of relativity theory
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Einstein@Home
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Interested in joining the hunt for gravitational waves? Thanks to the Einstein@Home project, you can - if you have a fast internet connection, you can donate your personal computer's idle time to help analyze the data from modern gravitational wave detectors.
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Einstein Light: A brief illumination of relativity
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Multimedia presentation of the basics of special relativity - includes many helpful animations; in the advanced modules, some formulae are used, as well
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John Baez' General Relativity Tutorial
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Easy-going introduction to general relativity - including formulae and mathematical concepts
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Pavillion of Science and Industry
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This website from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications contains two great expositions about relativistic physics: Spacetime wrinkles (about gravitational waves and numerical relativity) and Cosmos in a computer about cosmological simulations.
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Imagine the Universe!
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Website provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, with lots of information about astrophysics, including topics such as black holes and cosmology.
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Andrew Hamilton's Homepage
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Includes an online introduction to relativity and lots of visualizations of relativistic effects
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The official String Theory Website
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Web pages about the basic concepts of superstring theory, one of the candidates for a unified theory of general relativity and quantum theory (and much more)
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Open Directory: Relativity
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Comprehensive collection of relativity links - from popular science pages to resources for physics students
History and Biography
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Einstein Archives Online
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Huge online-presentation of original papers by Einstein
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Albert Einstein Archives
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Web presentation by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, to which Einstein left his papers, scientific and otherwise
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Einstein - Image and Impact
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Information on Einstein's biography and physics from the History Center of the American Institute of Physics
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