Download or read book Gravitation, Following the Prague Inspiration written by Ji?¡ Bi? k and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a festschrift celebrating the 60th birthday of Professor Jiri Bicak. The contributors are his former students currently working in the fields of general relativity, astrophysics, theoretical physics and cosmology. The articles present original results or survey those already published elsewhere. The subjects range from the motion of stars in galactic nuclei to quantum mechanics on a boundary, and include several hot topics of relativistic physics -- cosmological perturbations, the repulsive cosmological constant, discs around black holes, and gravitational waves.