Gravity

Title: Gravity

Author: David Darling

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9789085710493

Condition: Good

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- New: Book is new.

Description:
This book is about man's attempts to understand a strange force: gravity. Starting with Aristotle's theory that things fall to their "natural place," the book covers Galileo, Newton, and Einstein. It shows the problems with current theories of gravity, addressing the strange behavior of pendulums during solar eclipses and the paradoxical trajectory of future deep-space exploration vehicles.

This book also contains futuristic ideas: measuring gravitational waves, detecting dark matter, creating antigravity fields, warp drive, and even creating mini black holes and an embryonic universe.

From Aristotle to warp drive: all about gravity. Written by a top scientist.


David Darling is an astronomer and author of the controversial Teleportation, The Universal Book of Mathematics, The Universal Book of Astronomy and The Complete Book of Spaceflight. He publishes regularly in Astronomy and New Scientist.