Grip book pdf6/13/2023 ![]() ‘The Grip of Gravity by physicist Prabhakar Gondhalekar traces mankind’s search for the laws of motion and gravitation throughout history, with each chapter devoted to a different scientist from history … Gondhalekar’s historical account of the path of scientific discovery which dominates the first half of the book is highly entertaining … As the book progresses, Gondhalekar continues to describe the history of the field, but places more and more emphasis on explaining the science to non-physicists. The Grip of Gravity is replete with entertaining digressions and biographical sketches.’ He begins with Aristotle, dwells on the insights of Galileo, Newton and Einstein, and finishes with 10-dimensional ‘superstring’ theory, the great hope for a theory that unifies gravity with quantum theory. ‘Astrophysicist Prabhakar Gondhalekar guides us through gravity’s maze.
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