{"id":95,"date":"2016-02-15T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T10:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T11:56:11","slug":"harry-collinss-gravitational-wave-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/harry-collinss-gravitational-wave-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Collins&#8217;s Gravitational Wave Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Presentation of work on this website does not imply endorsement by LIGO or any other gravitational wave project. Please note that all items within this site are copyright to Harry Collins.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"floatCaptionRight\">\n<div style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/socsi\/contactsandpeople\/harrycollins\/image-161321-web.jpg\" alt=\"Gravity\u2019s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the 21st Century \" width=\"192\" height=\"247\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gravity\u2019s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the 21st Century<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Gravity\u2019s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Published (fall 2010) by University of Chicago Press<\/p>\n<p><em>Gravity\u2019s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This 187 page book describes the career of the `Equinox Event\u2019 \u2013 a sudden burst of energy seen simultaneously on the two giant LIGO interferometers at the time of the Autumn Equinox in 2007.\u00a0 For 18 months scientists argued, sometimes fiercely, about what it could be \u2013 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.\u00a0 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 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/gravitys-ghost-table-of-contents\/\">Click here for the Table of Contents of Gravity&#8217;s Ghost.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"floatCaptionRight\">\n<div style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/socsi\/images\/image-36487-web.jpg\" alt=\"Gravity's Shadow Book Cover\" width=\"190\" height=\"284\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gravity&#8217;s Shadow: The Search For Gravitational Waves<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Gravity&#8217;s Shadow: The Search For Gravitational Waves<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/gravitys-shadow-table-of-contents\/\">Click here for the Table of Contents of Gravity&#8217;s Shadow.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/gravity-wave-news-relevant-to-gravitys-shadow\/\">Gravity Wave News relevant to Gravity&#8217;s Shadow.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Papers on Gravitational Waves<\/h3>\n<p>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&#8217;s Shadow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/paper-1\/\">Paper 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/paper-2\/\">Paper 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/paper-3\/\">Paper 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/socsi\/contactsandpeople\/harrycollins\/paper-4.html\">Paper 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/paper-5\/\">Paper 5<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Paper 6 &#8211; No abstract available<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/paper-7\/\">Paper 7<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/paper-8\/\">Paper 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/paper-9\/\">Paper 9<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/paper-10\/\">Paper 10<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presentation of work on this website does not imply endorsement by LIGO or any other gravitational wave project. Please note that all items within this site are copyright to Harry Collins. &nbsp; Gravity\u2019s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the 21st Century Published (fall 2010) by University of Chicago Press Gravity\u2019s Ghost: \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/harry-collinss-gravitational-wave-project\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5261,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/harrycollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}