The universal force / Louis A. Girifalco.

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...

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Main Author: Girifalco, L. A. (Louis A.) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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