Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet

Author: Richard Panek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds, and cultures, and tracing our millennia-long efforts to unravel its secrets - from Aristotelian philosophy to Newton's apple to the recent, groundbreaking observation of ripples in the fabric of space-time. What is gravity? Nobody knows - and just about nobody knows that nobody knows. How something so pervasive can also...Read more