| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 297 pages) |
| Contents |
The seeker -- The giants -- The first modern giant -- The grid -- The universal force -- The laws -- The system of the world -- Force and mass -- Two more giants --- Ether -- The genius -- Time and space -- It really is true -- The space-time continuum -- Time warps and bent space -- It stands alone -- This too is true -- Crunch -- Beyond existence -- Absolute space? -- Infinity -- How weird can it get? -- Scientific truth -- The meaning of why -- Final comments |
| Summary |
Girifalco describes the growth of our understanding of gravity and the science on which it is based, from the early Greeks to Einstein's grand insights of curved space-time. Showing that science searches for the ultimate roots of natural phenomena and pursues a kind of mysticism, the mysteries it unfolds are enthralling |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gravitation.
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Gravity.
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Gravitation -- History
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Gravity -- History
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Gravitation
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SCIENCE -- Gravity.
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Gravitation
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Gravity
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191527975 |
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0191527971 |
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