The book collects a series of articles to review the advances that have been made in the field of gravitational collapse in general relativity and alternative t

This book discusses theoretical predictions and their comparison with experiments of extended and modified classical and quantum theories of gravity. The goal i

The ideas presented in this book are new scientific theories based largely upon a spate of very recent astronomical observations. These theories include: a cosm

The Springer Handbook of Spacetime is dedicated to the ground-breaking paradigm shifts embodied in the two relativity theories, and describes in detail the prof