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The Universal Force: Gravity - Creator of Worlds

"The Universal Force" conveys the excitement of science and nature's mysteries. It describes gravitation as seen by examining the achievements of those great scientists who have struggled with the seemingly simple facts and managed to extract some truth about the nature of gra...

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Autor principal: Girifalco, Louis A
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Oxford Univ. Press 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199228966.001.0001
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1080341
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Sumario:"The Universal Force" conveys the excitement of science and nature's mysteries. It describes gravitation as seen by examining the achievements of those great scientists who have struggled with the seemingly simple facts and managed to extract some truth about the nature of gravity, its origins, and its effects. Gravity is intimately tied up with motion, and therefore with time and space, and is responsible for planetary systems, the evolution of stars and the existence of blackholes and the very beginning of the Universe. It is the universal force, and to look at gravity is to look a