The Ascent of Gravity - The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything

Gravity, to steal the words of Winston Churchill, is -a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.- And penetrating that enigma promises to answer the biggest questions in science: what is space? What is time? What is the universe? And where did it all come from Award-winning writer Marcus Chown takes us on an unforgettable journey from the recognition of the -force- of gravity in 1666 to the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015. And, as we stand on the brink of a seismic revolution in our worldview, he brings us up to speed on the greatest challenge ever to confront physics.