Einstein's enigma, or, Black holes in my bubble bath / C.V. Vishveshwara ; [illustrations in Chapter 15 and all technical drawings, B.G. Gujjarappa ; cartoons, C.V. Vishveshwara]
The bathtub -- The stellar bed -- The Casanova connection -- Footprints of the giants -- Cosmic framework -- A moving experience -- The fabric of spacetime -- Grappling with gravity -- Beetles on a branch -- Tub talk -- The first solution and the last statement -- Sphere of darkness -- The voracious whirlpool -- Dynamics of the unique -- A date with Dante -- Imprints of the invisible -- Celestial swan song -- Cibo per la mente -- Curtain call -- Foundations of fact and fantasy
Summary
A funny rendition of the story of gravitation theory from the early historic origins to the developments in astrophysics, focusing on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity and black-hole physics
