Gravity does not exist
Subtitle: a puzzle for the 21st century
By: Vincent Icke
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9789089644466
Subjects: Physics; Physicists; History
Description: "What we know always leads to what we do not know. This book follows the historical path of the most brilliant theories in physics, and the people who made them: the general theory of relativity and quantum field theory. The paths of these very successful descriptions of the Universe intersect. When the two theories collide, the light that they shed on the understanding of our world is extinguished. We do not know the road ahead. Can they be merged into a single theory? Nobody has an answer yet. Where are the clues? In theory, experiments, mathematics, or cosmology? Is the most important physics question of our time too difficult, or is the answer already growing in the mind of a young woman or man somewhere in the world?"--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The process of measurement --; title: The process of progress --; title: Laws ain't --; title: Motion --; title: Huygens's relativity --; title: Acceleration --; title: Gravity --; title: Absoluteness theory --; title: Gravity does not exist --; title: Reflections --; title: Jes' rollin' along --; title: Feynman's web --; title: A twist to the tale --; title: Questions for the 21st century --; title: Small moves, Ellie --; title: Thanks.