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The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity
A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life . . .
Swiss theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham has spent her career working at the interface of gravity, cosmology, and particle physics, and with The Beauty of Falling she shares captivating stories about her quest to gain intimacy with gravity, and 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.
"Part-memoir, part-textbook, The Beauty of Falling begins with a crash course in gravity’s fundamental nature, from Newton and Galileo to black holes and dark energy. The best moments, though, are when de Rham recounts her own interfaces with gravity (as a scuba diver, pilot, aspiring astronaut and theoretical physicist) giving this force an alluring personality." -- Scientific American