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Sebastian Boblest

Sebastian Boblest studied physics at the University of Stuttgart and earned his PhD in Theoretical Physics. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems at the University of Stuttgart.


His research interests were visualization in special and general relativity, as well as the visualization of flow simulations on supercomputers. He now works with Robert Bosch GmbH, Reutlingen, in the field of embedded artificial intelligence.


Thomas Müller is a research associate at the House of Astronomy and at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. He studied physics at the Eberhards Karls University of Tübingen, where he also earned his PhD.He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems at the University of Stuttgart. His research interests are visualization in special and general relativity, astronomy, and astrophysics, the visualization of high-resolution LIDAR data for geomorphological analyses, and the development of educational software.


Günter Wunner studied physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he earned his PhD and his habilitation degree. He worked as an associate professor at the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Tübingen. He held a chair for Theoretical Plasma and Atomic Physics at the University of the Ruhr at Bochum.He was head of the Institute of Theoretical Physics I at the University of Stuttgart.His research areas include nonlinear dynamics in quantum physics, non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, as well as atomic physics and astrophysics.

Special and General Relativity

Special and General Relativity

This textbook combines the mathematical foundations of the theory of special and general relativity with numerous applications in physics and astronomy. Besides the discussion of classical experiments that impressively confirm the predictions of the theory of relativity, a special focus is on cosmology, as an important application of general relativity.

Special and General Relativity

Special and General Relativity