Gravity's kiss : the detection of gravitational waves / Harry Collins.
Gravity's kiss : the detection of gravitational waves / Harry Collins.
Gravity's kiss : the detection of gravitational waves / Harry Collins.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
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G 2017/5143
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English
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vi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The first week : we have coherence -- Reservations and complications : malicious injections? -- Half a century of gravitational wave detection -- Weeks 2 and 3 : the freeze, rumors -- Week 4 : the box is opened -- Week 5 to the end of October : directness, black holes -- November : ripples, beliefs,...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
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Massachusetts
Date Published
[2017]
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"Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of gravitational waves for fifty years. Then, in September 2015, came a 'very interesting event' (as the cautious subject line in a physicist's email read) that proved to be the first detection of gravitational waves. In Gravity's Kiss, Harry Collins -- who has been watching the science of gravi...
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Gravity's kiss : the detection of gravitational waves / Harry Collins.
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Detection of gravitational waves
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-402) and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/5143
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74VKVgZ88KJy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgZ88KJy
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ISBN
0262036185 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262036184 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
539.754
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991024142812302626
