Banesh Hoffmann Quote

What is it that pulls the apple to the ground, bends the circling moon to the earth and makes the planets captive of the sun?... It is intangible time and space themselves, acting in awesome concert as curved space-time holding sway over all things in the universe.


Relativity and Its Roots, Chapter 6 (pp. 156-157), W.H. Freeman & Company. 1983


What is it that pulls the apple to the ground, bends the circling moon to the earth and makes the planets captive of the sun?... It is intangible...

What is it that pulls the apple to the ground, bends the circling moon to the earth and makes the planets captive of the sun?... It is intangible...

What is it that pulls the apple to the ground, bends the circling moon to the earth and makes the planets captive of the sun?... It is intangible...

What is it that pulls the apple to the ground, bends the circling moon to the earth and makes the planets captive of the sun?... It is intangible...