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2 kwi 2024 · “The Beauty of Falling takes us on an insightful exploration of gravity, from historical beginnings to the cutting-edge present. Guided by the perspective of a modern theorist, the book is a valuable read for the curious minds seeking a unique look into the heart of gravity’s mysteries.”—Sara Seager, author of The Smallest Lights in the ...
2 kwi 2024 · The Beauty of Falling. Available in 3 editions. Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body’s buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research.
1 kwi 2024 · A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life. Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body’s buoyancy in the Indian Ocean.
2 kwi 2024 · In her book, The Beauty of Falling, she weaves together physics and memoir in a meditation on gravity as a metaphor for human existence.
4 wrz 2024 · But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity. As quoted in "Scientists & Their Gods" in U.S. News & World Report Vol. 111 (1991)
2 kwi 2024 · A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life. Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body’s buoyancy in the Indian Ocean.
22 lis 2019 · Our sense of beauty in science (the scientific aesthetic) is a powerful adaptive heuristic that the human intellectual apparatus develops as an effective evolutionary response to the challenging...