Book contents
- The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity
- Reviews
- The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- The Beginning of the Journey
- 1 Gravity … Attracts!
- 2 The Fathers of Gravity
- 3 Spacetime, Curvature and Gravity
- 4 How to Bend Spacetime
- 5 Neutron Stars: Wonders of Physics
- 6 Black Holes: Champions of Curvature
- 7 The First Image of a Black Hole
- 8 Gravitational Waves: Curvature in Motion
- The End of the Journey
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
The Beginning of the Journey
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
- The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity
- Reviews
- The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- The Beginning of the Journey
- 1 Gravity … Attracts!
- 2 The Fathers of Gravity
- 3 Spacetime, Curvature and Gravity
- 4 How to Bend Spacetime
- 5 Neutron Stars: Wonders of Physics
- 6 Black Holes: Champions of Curvature
- 7 The First Image of a Black Hole
- 8 Gravitational Waves: Curvature in Motion
- The End of the Journey
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Gravity attracts – this is such an obvious phenomenon that writing this book was not necessary to stress it. Less obvious is that, even before it appears in the form of physical interaction, gravity attracts our attention and our imagination. As soon as we are born, before developing a conscious relationship with the physical universe, we already know gravity at an instinctive level. For the rest of our lives, it will represent the only one of the four fundamental interactions of which we will have conscious awareness. And from which we will often try to escape.
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- The Irresistible Attraction of GravityA Journey to Discover Black Holes, pp. 1 - 3Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023