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The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Contributor(s): Panek, Richard (Author)

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 ISBN: 0358299578     ISBN-13: 9780358299578
Publisher: Mariner Books
OUR PRICE: $16.14  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Gravity
- Science | Physics - Quantum Theory
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" L (0.50 lbs) 256 pages
 
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What is gravity? Nobody knows--and just about nobody knows that nobody knows. How something so pervasive can also be so mysterious, and how that mystery can be so wholly unrecognized outside the field of physics, is one of the greatest conundrums in modern science. But as award-winning author Richard Panek shows in this groundbreaking, mind-bending book, gravity is a cold case that's beginning to heat up.

In The Trouble with Gravity, Panek invites the reader to experience this ubiquitous yet elusive force in a breathtakingly new way. Gravity, Panek explains, structures not only our bodies and our physical world, but also our minds and culture. From our very beginnings, humans' conceptions of gravity have been inextricably bound to our understanding of existence itself. As we get closer and closer to solving the riddle of gravity, it is not only physics that is becoming clearer. We are also getting to know ourselves as never before.

Contributor Bio(s): Panek, Richard: -

RICHARD PANEK, a Guggenheim Fellow in science writing, is the author of The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality, which won the American Institute of Physics communication award in 2012, and the co-author with Temple Grandin of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, a New York Times bestseller. He lives in New York City.
 
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