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Nature 451, 130 (10 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/451130a; Published online 9 January 2008

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BOOK REVIEWEDThe Universal Force: Gravity, Creator of Worlds

by Louis A. Girifalco

Oxford University Press: 2007. 288 pp. £19.99

Gravity, the weakest known force, is the most obvious in our everyday life. The urge to understand it has challenged generations of great physicists, from Galileo and Newton to Einstein and Hawking.