The ascent of gravity the quest to understand the force that explains everything
Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world, yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described, yet it is the least understood. It is a "force" that keeps your feet on the ground yet no such force actually exists. Gravity, to steal the words...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First Pegasus books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Six things you may not know about gravity
- Part one: Newton. The Moon is falling ; The last of the magicians ; Beware the tides of March ; Map of the invisible world
- Part two: Einstein. Catch me if you can ; Ode to a falling man ; Where God divided by zero
- Part three: Beyond Einstein. A quantum of space-time ; The undiscovered country.
