From Falling Apples to Bent Spacetime:
The Story of Gravity
Description
Why does an apple fall down? Why does the Moon stay in the sky instead of crashing into Earth — or floating away? And what did Einstein mean when he said that gravity isn't really a force at all, but a bend in the fabric of space and time?
From Falling Apples to Bent Spacetime takes students on a journey through one of the greatest scientific stories ever told — from Aristotle's ancient (and very wrong) ideas about falling objects, to Galileo rolling balls down ramps in secret, to Newton watching the sky and inventing a new kind of mathematics to explain it, to Einstein imagining what it would feel like to ride a beam of light and rewriting everything we thought we knew.
Along the way, students will discover why time runs slower near a black hole, how GPS satellites have to correct for Einstein's equations every single day, and why the most powerful force in the universe is also the weakest one in the room.
No prior physics knowledge required. Just curiosity — and a willingness to have your mind bent along with spacetime.