Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (888 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674971663 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 340 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ripples in Spacetime is an engaging account of the international effort to complete Einstein’s project, capture his elusive ripples, and launch an era of gravitational-wave astronomy that promises to explain, more vividly than ever before, our universe’s structure and origin.The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world’s largest scientific endeavors. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime nearly a hundred years ago, but they were never perceived directly until now. It has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century: the detection of gravitational waves. He explains the seeming impossibility of developing technologies sensitive enough to detec
He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal. . Govert Schilling is an astronomy journalist and writer based in the Netherlands.Martin Rees is a cosmologist and space scientist based in Cambridge, England
(Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study)A fascinating story of astronomy…Schilling walks readers through a lucid history of the universe, of general relativity, and of the bumpy search for Einstein’s last major unconfirmed prediction: the existence of gravitational waves…Schilling delivers a lively, expert, mostly comprehensible account, equal parts politics, personality, and science, of the search that ended two years ago…Schilling emphasizes that this is not simply another feather in Einstein’s cap, but a valuable new tool. (David Shoemaker, Spokesperson, LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Senior Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute)In this elegant and captivating book Govert Schilling takes us by the hand through a century of scientific adventures to one of the biggest discove