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    Gravity's kiss : the detection of gravitational waves / Harry Collins.

    • Title:Gravity's kiss : the detection of gravitational waves / Harry Collins.
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    • Variant Title:Detection of gravitational waves
    • Author/Creator:Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-
    • Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
      ©2017
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Gravitational waves--Research.
      General relativity (Physics)
    • Description:vi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-402) and index.
    • ISBN:9780262036184 (hardcover : alk. paper)
      0262036185 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 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.
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