Like it or not, gravity controls life and death on this planet, yet we barely understand it. Science writer James Riordon tries to get to the bottom of in in his new book, Crush.
Brillant framing of gravity as simultaneosly mundane and mysterious. The 95% dark matter/dark energy statistic really puts physics in perspective, basically we're reverse-engineering the universe from a tiny sample of visible matter. What I find intresting is how gravitatoinal wave detection has flipped the script on testing relativity, instead of looking for anomalies in what we can see, we're now listening to collisions a billion years ago.
Brillant framing of gravity as simultaneosly mundane and mysterious. The 95% dark matter/dark energy statistic really puts physics in perspective, basically we're reverse-engineering the universe from a tiny sample of visible matter. What I find intresting is how gravitatoinal wave detection has flipped the script on testing relativity, instead of looking for anomalies in what we can see, we're now listening to collisions a billion years ago.