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Gravity's kiss : the detection of gravitational waves / Harry Collins.
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Title:Gravity's kiss : the detection of gravitational waves / Harry Collins.
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Variant Title:Detection of gravitational waves
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Author/Creator:Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-
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Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
©2017
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: QC179 .C647 2017
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Links:Donor bookplate
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Gravitational waves--Research.
General relativity (Physics)
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Description:vi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-402) and index.
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ISBN:9780262036184 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262036185 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. First Week: We Have Coherence
2. Reservations and Complications: Malicious Injections?
3. Half a Century of Gravitational Wave Detection
4. Weeks 2 and 3: The Freeze, Rumors
5. Week 4: The Box Is Opened
6. Week 5 to the End of October: Directness, Black Holes
7. November: Ripples, Belief, and Second Monday
8. November: Writing the Discovery Paper
9. December, Weeks 12
16: The Proof Regress, Relentless Professionalism, and the Third Event
10. January and February: The LVC-Wide Meetings and the Submission
11. Last Ripples: From the Press Conferences to the American Physical Society and the Rest of the World
12. Changing Order: The Long Aha!
13. On the Nature of Science
14. Book, the Author, the Community, and Expertise
Postscript: The Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
How the Book Was Written and Those Who Helped
Sociological and Philosophical Notes.