The Beauty of Falling (eBook)

A Life in Pursuit of Gravity

Claudia De Rham (Autor)

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2024
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23749-7 (ISBN)

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A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her lifeClaudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body's buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research. As an astronaut candidate, dreaming of the experience of flying free from Earth's pull. And as a physicist, discovering new sides to gravity's irresistible personality by exploring the limits of Einstein's general theory of relativity. In The Beauty of Falling, de Rham shares captivating stories about her quest to gain intimacy with gravity, to understand both its feeling and fundamental nature. Her life's pursuit led her from a twist of fate that snatched away her dream of becoming an astronaut to an exhilarating breakthrough at the very frontiers of gravitational physics.While many of us presume to know gravity quite well, the brightest scientists in history have yet to fully answer the simple question: what exactly is gravity? De Rham reveals how great mindsfrom Newton and Einstein to Stephen Hawking, Andrea Ghez, and Roger Penroseled her to the edge of knowledge about this fundamental force. She found hints of a hidden side to gravity at the particle level where Einstein's theory breaks down, leading her to develop a new theory of ';massive gravity.' De Rham shares how her life's path turned from a precipitous fall to an exquisite flight toward the discovery of something entirely new about our surprising, gravity-driven universe.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.4.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 14 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
• Schlagworte: Albert Michelson • Astronaut • books about space: Sun • Claudia de Rham • Cosmology • dark energy • Dark Matter • Diving • edward morley • Einstein • electromagnetic waves • Flying • free fall • Galaxy • Galileo • Ghez • glight • Gravitational attraction • Gravitational force • gravitational waves • Gravitons • Gravity • Hawking • Inertia • James Webb Telescope • Kepler • law of gravity • law of universal gravitation • Laws of Physics, Science • light • light interferometer • Luminiferous aether • Madagascar • Massive Gravity • Maxwell's equations • milky way • Newton • Nobel Prize for Physics • Orbit • Penrose • Peru • Physics • Planets • Princeton University Press • Quantum Theory • Relative Motion • Relativity • science books • science of gravity • space • Spacetime • Special relativity • The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity • theoretical physics • Travel • Universe • why is gravity important • women in physics • women in science
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23749-2 / 0691237492
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23749-7 / 9780691237497