Gravity | Laura Mersini-Houghton, Erik Verlinde, Frank Wilczek
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Gravity | Laura Mersini-Houghton, Erik Verlinde, Frank Wilczek

2017-04-06
We all think we know what gravity is. But where gravity comes from stumped Newton, and 300 years later we are no closer to an explanation. We don't even have a mathematical account of gravity that applies in all situations. Why is a force so central to the universe so elusive in its character? Theoretical physicist Laura Mersini Houghton, Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek and string theorist Eric Verlinde examine the enigma of gravity.
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