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Gravity’s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the 21st Century
Gravity’s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the 21st Century
Published (fall 2010) by University of Chicago Press
Gravity’s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the 21st Century
This 187 page book describes the career of the `Equinox Event’ – a sudden burst of energy seen simultaneously on the two giant LIGO interferometers at the time of the Autumn Equinox in 2007. For 18 months scientists argued, sometimes fiercely, about what it could be – did it have the characteristics of a real gravitational wave or not? Written in the form of a detective story the denouement comes as a surprise. In the course of the story the meaning of statistics is explored in a dedicated chapter and the book finishes with an essay on the state of science in the 21st Century.
Click here for the Table of Contents of Gravity’s Ghost.
Gravity’s Shadow: The Search For Gravitational Waves
Gravity’s Shadow: The Search For Gravitational Waves
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Gravity Wave News relevant to Gravity’s Shadow.
Papers on Gravitational Waves
Abstracts of Ten Papers on Gravitational Waves are listed below. Abstract 8 will not become a full paper. The arguments and most of the material from these papers/abstracts have been woven into Gravity’s Shadow.
- Paper 1
- Paper 2
- Paper 3
- Paper 4
- Paper 5
- Paper 6 – No abstract available
- Paper 7
- Paper 8
- Paper 9
- Paper 10