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Once Upon a Time There Was a Pendulum by Gracia Arredondo Fernández is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Once Upon a Time There Was a Pendulum about?

This book is the result of a search that began in 1968, when a very old universal atlas fell in my hands. The first pages caught my attention, for they described the knowledge about the universe at the beginning of the 20th century, how the 19th century idea of the existence of the ether had been discarded by the Michelson-Morley experiment and the theory of relativity. I thought the idea of the ether was beautiful, some fixed spacetime structure to hold, sort of platonic, and I got convinced that there had to be a way to make the existence of the ether compatible with relativity. Somehow, somehow, perhaps making the structure flexible..., its flexibility conspiring to make the speed of light an invariant and to allow relativity. In the following decades, whenever I found a lattice -a honeycomb, the structure of graphite, cubes in playgrounds- I wondered whether that might be the structure of the ether. The answer came as a surprise in 2009, after having spent many months playing with the geometry that appears in Escher ́s Waterfall, modifying it so as to turn that impossible fascinating object into something possible. When I realized I had found a special geometry I tried to contr

Who reads Once Upon a Time There Was a Pendulum?

Author

Gracia Arredondo Fernández

Publisher

Gracia Arredondo Fernández

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9788409121083

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Physics, Science, Quantum Physics