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Einstein's Enigma or Black holes in my bubble bath.

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A book to inform, enrich and entertain every science educated reader. This is a fascinating and enjoyable popular science book on gravity and black holes. It offers an absorbing account on the history of research on the universe and gravity from Aristotle via Copernicus and Newton to Einstein. The author possesses high literary qualities and is a celebrated relativist. The physics of black holes constitutes one of the most fascinating chapters in modern science but at  the same time, there is a fanciful quality associated with this strange and beautiful entity. The black hole story is undoubtedly an adventure through physics, philosophy, history, fiction and fantasy. This book is an attempt to blend all these elements together.Along with the prose, one also gets to enjoy poetry and cartoons by the author. "The author blends fiction, fantasy, physics and philosophy to tell the story of gravitation theory...and the astrophysics of black holes. He not only succeeds at