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 End 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 was obvious to you before you started reading this book and is even more obvious now that you have reached the end of it. At the same time, however, I hope you now agree with me that gravity is also attractive, which is far less obvious.
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- The Irresistible Attraction of GravityA Journey to Discover Black Holes, pp. 260 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023