Friday, June 25, 2010

The Universal Force: Gravity-Creator of Worlds

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* Hardcover: 288 pages
* Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (November 11, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0199228965
* ISBN-13: 978-0199228966


Editorial Reviews
"An enriching challenge to the diligent reader. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty." -- CHOICE

"Unique in its historic perspective, with its biographies of very high quality, and its use of the subject to illustrate the nature of science itself, how it works, what it can, and most important, what it cannot do."--David Welch, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Product Description
The Universal Force conveys the excitement of science and nature's mysteries. It describes gravitation as seen by examining the achievements of those great scientists who have struggled with the seemingly simple facts and managed to extract some truth about the nature of gravity, its origins, and its effects. Gravity is intimately tied up with motion, and therefore with time and space, and is responsible for planetary systems, the evolution of stars and the existence of black holes and the very beginning of the Universe. It is the universal force and to look at gravity is to look at the deepest aspects of nature.

The historical context from Aristotle's teleology through Galileo's conflict with the Church, to Newton's law, and Einstein's curved space, displays the evolution of the science of gravity as one of the greatest and most fascinating human achievements.

Contrary to popular opinion, all important science can be understood by anyone, with or without a scientific background! This book shows that the beauty and mysteries of science can be shared with everyone.

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