Gravity's Arc

The Story of Gravity from Aristotle to Einstein and Beyond
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-471-71989-2
Verlag: Turner Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

This book recaps man's age-old quest to understand gravity, from Aristotle's ideas about objects falling to their "natural place" through Galileo, Newton, and Einstein. It explores some of the problems facing our current understanding of how gravity works, including the strange behavior of pendulums during eclipses and the anomalous trajectories of the deep-space Pioneer probes. And it considers possibilities for the future: efforts to detect gravity waves, the discovery of dark energy, and, in decades to come, devising a form of antigravity, achieving "warp drive," and even creating miniature black holes and embryonic universes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Darling, David

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Klassische Mechanik, Newtonsche Mechanik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.

Prelude: The Weighting Game.

1 No Laughing Matter.

2 The Path of Dissent.

3 The Parabolic Man.

4 The Day the Sky Fell.

5 Escape from Earth.

6 One of Our Planets Is Missing.

7 When Gravity Became Geometry.

8 Alpha and Omega.

9 The Ripples of Space.

10 Disturbing News.

11 In the Dark.

12 All Together Now.

13 Engineers of the Continuum.

References.

Bibliography.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

David Darling has a Ph.D. in astronomy and has been a full-time freelance science writer for more than twenty years. He is the author of Teleportation: The Impossible Leap, as well as three science encyclopedias: The Universal Book of Mathematics, The Universal Book of Astronomy, and The Complete Book of Spaceflight, all available from Wiley. His other narrative science titles include Deep Time and Equations of Eternity, a New York Times Notable Book. Darling's articles and reviews have appeared in Astronomy, Omni, Penthouse, New Scientist, the New York Times, and the Guardian, among others. He also hosts a major informational Web site, www.daviddarling.info.