What We Are Reading Today: The Beauty of Falling

What We Are Reading Today: The Beauty of Falling
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Updated 24 January 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: The Beauty of Falling

What We Are Reading Today: The Beauty of Falling

Author: Claudia de Rham

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. As an astronaut candidate, dreaming of the experience of flying free from Earth’s pull. And as a physicist, discovering new sides to gravity’s irresistible personality by exploring the limits of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

In “The Beauty of Falling,” de Rham shares captivating stories about her quest to gain intimacy with gravity, to understand both its feeling and fundamental nature.