Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics

By: Gregory J. Gbur

Narrated by: David Stifel

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 19th 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.

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©2019 Gregory J. Gbur (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

Charming i

An enjoyable collection of diverse informstion turning around CATS through time and disciplines. A fun read.

great book. poor playback.

playback kept stopping. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15.

Who Knew?

Physics certainly is not my area of knowledge- in fact the last contact with physics as a subject was high school. This book was fascinating in its interweaving of sciences, inventions, and experiments that established fundamental principles in a variety of fields throughout history. The quite large role that cats’ ability to land on their feet in all of this was certainly surprising. After finishing, I still can’t explain a cat’s righting behavior, but I don’t care since it was fascinating to hear about others journeys to try to do so.

Adorable and enlightening

I was surprised that this book 1. continued the story of cats landing on their feet throughout and 2. covered such a broad array of topics in the process, including the development of photography, Earth's magnetic poles, and Foucault's pendulum. The reader does the work justice. thoroughly enjoyable!

Enjoy!

Entertaining and great facts. Could not stop listening. Cats are also great listeners. thank you