Claudia de Rham is professor and director of the Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The recipient of numerous prizes and awards, she is ranked among the most influential researchers in fundamental physics of the past decade.

"An excellent primer."---Dylan Neri, The Spectator

• INTRODUCTION: A Journey through Gravity1 A Universal LanguageThe Universality of the Speed of LightMichelson and Morley’s Infamous Failed ExperimentRotations in Space and TimeThe Equivalence Principle and Universality of Gravity2 The Gravity of Our Curved RealityThe Thread in the Fabric of SpacetimeA Spacetime GeometryA Straight Line in a Curved Spacetime3 Gravity and the Force WithinA Feeling of GravityTidal ForcesA Messenger for GravityCatching a Glimpse of GlightEinstein Was Right! Or Was He?4 Predicting Our Own FallGravity at Its LimitSingularitiesEmbracing the Planck ScaleOur Journey inside a Black HoleOur Journey to the Beginning of Time5 Expanding into NothingnessA Mysterious Universe in Continuous ExpansionAn Accelerated ExpansionDark EnergyEinstein’s Cosmological ConstantDiving into the VacuumThe Greatest Discrepancy in Scientific History6 The Graviton, What a Particle!?So Far, So GoodGravity with a Sense of Humor?The Ghost of Massive GravityFrom Extra Dimensions to Massive GravitonsTickling an ElephantGraffiti in the Sky7 Our Lives in Pursuit of GravityLightness of Gravity(Space)Time Will TellPi in the SkyThe Irrevocable Quantum Nature of GravityFrom Waves to ParticlesThe Ultimate JourneyConclusion: Creatures of GravityBibliographyIndex

Claudia de Rham is professor and director of the Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The recipient of numerous prizes and awards, she is ranked among the most influential researchers in fundamental physics of the past decade.

"An excellent primer."---Dylan Neri, The Spectator

• INTRODUCTION: A Journey through Gravity1 A Universal LanguageThe Universality of the Speed of LightMichelson and Morley’s Infamous Failed ExperimentRotations in Space and TimeThe Equivalence Principle and Universality of Gravity2 The Gravity of Our Curved RealityThe Thread in the Fabric of SpacetimeA Spacetime GeometryA Straight Line in a Curved Spacetime3 Gravity and the Force WithinA Feeling of GravityTidal ForcesA Messenger for GravityCatching a Glimpse of GlightEinstein Was Right! Or Was He?4 Predicting Our Own FallGravity at Its LimitSingularitiesEmbracing the Planck ScaleOur Journey inside a Black HoleOur Journey to the Beginning of Time5 Expanding into NothingnessA Mysterious Universe in Continuous ExpansionAn Accelerated ExpansionDark EnergyEinstein’s Cosmological ConstantDiving into the VacuumThe Greatest Discrepancy in Scientific History6 The Graviton, What a Particle!?So Far, So GoodGravity with a Sense of Humor?The Ghost of Massive GravityFrom Extra Dimensions to Massive GravitonsTickling an ElephantGraffiti in the Sky7 Our Lives in Pursuit of GravityLightness of Gravity(Space)Time Will TellPi in the SkyThe Irrevocable Quantum Nature of GravityFrom Waves to ParticlesThe Ultimate JourneyConclusion: Creatures of GravityBibliographyIndex

Claudia de Rham is professor and director of the Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The recipient of numerous prizes and awards, she is ranked among the most influential researchers in fundamental physics of the past decade.

"An excellent primer."---Dylan Neri, The Spectator

• INTRODUCTION: A Journey through Gravity1 A Universal LanguageThe Universality of the Speed of LightMichelson and Morley’s Infamous Failed ExperimentRotations in Space and TimeThe Equivalence Principle and Universality of Gravity2 The Gravity of Our Curved RealityThe Thread in the Fabric of SpacetimeA Spacetime GeometryA Straight Line in a Curved Spacetime3 Gravity and the Force WithinA Feeling of GravityTidal ForcesA Messenger for GravityCatching a Glimpse of GlightEinstein Was Right! Or Was He?4 Predicting Our Own FallGravity at Its LimitSingularitiesEmbracing the Planck ScaleOur Journey inside a Black HoleOur Journey to the Beginning of Time5 Expanding into NothingnessA Mysterious Universe in Continuous ExpansionAn Accelerated ExpansionDark EnergyEinstein’s Cosmological ConstantDiving into the VacuumThe Greatest Discrepancy in Scientific History6 The Graviton, What a Particle!?So Far, So GoodGravity with a Sense of Humor?The Ghost of Massive GravityFrom Extra Dimensions to Massive GravitonsTickling an ElephantGraffiti in the Sky7 Our Lives in Pursuit of GravityLightness of Gravity(Space)Time Will TellPi in the SkyThe Irrevocable Quantum Nature of GravityFrom Waves to ParticlesThe Ultimate JourneyConclusion: Creatures of GravityBibliographyIndex