Crush explores how gravity shapes life as we know it

Crush
James Riordon
The MIT Press, $40.25

Isaac Newton confessed that he had no idea what gravity was. The 17th century English polymath knew what it did, and he described it with a universal law of gravitation. But where the law came from, and why everything seemed to obey it, Newton could not say. More than 300 years later, “gravity remains both the most familiar and most mysterious of all the forces,” author James Riordan writes in Crush.

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