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Claudia 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 minds—from Newton and Einstein to Stephen Hawking, Andrea Ghez, and Roger Penrose—led 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.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 2 April 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0691237484
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691237480
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 454 g
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.61 x 2.54 x 22.23 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 200,429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) 603 in Astronomy (Books) 1,000 in Popular Science Physics 9,822 in Scientific, Technical & Medical
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