Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
- Author Gregory J. Gbur
- Narrator David Stifel
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 22 October 2019
- Run Time 9 hours and 18 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre History of science, Physics, Science: general issues.
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What to expect
How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles.
The question of how falling cats land on their feet has intrigued humans since at least the middle of the nineteenth century. In this playful and eye-opening history, physicist and cat parent Gregory Gbur explores how attempts to understand the cat-righting reflex have provided crucial insights into puzzles in mathematics, geophysics, neuroscience, and human space exploration.
The result is an engaging tumble through physics, physiology, photography, and robotics to uncover, through scientific debate, the secret of the acrobatic performance known as cat-turning, the cat flip, and the cat twist. Listeners learn the solution but also discover that the finer details still inspire heated arguments. As with other cat behavior, the more we investigate, the more surprises we discover.
Critics Review
“Narrator David Stifel’s voice is clear, making it easier for listeners to grasp complicated science concepts.”
“Even cats obey the laws of nature. In this engrossing book, Greg Gbur uses cats’ mysterious ability to land on their feet to explore how physics works in the real world.”
“A fascinating and fast-moving journey of a book…an addictively smart and funny don’t-miss exploration of science, from free-falling cats to the history of photography, quantum physics, eccentric scientists, and more.”
“When the shelves in the science section of bookstores groan under the weight of tomes concerning String Theory and the Higgs Boson, this extremely well written popular science book concerning such a human-scale problem is refreshing.”
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