Gravity’s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-First Century
Harry Collins
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction 1
1 Gravitational Wave Detection 7
2 The Equinox Event: Early Days 23
3 Resistance to Discovery 49
4 The Equinox Event: The Middle Period 71
5 The Hidden Histories of Statistical Tests 93
6 The Equinox Event: The Denouement 111
7 Gravity’s Ghost 127
Envoi: Science in the Twenty-First Century 153
Postscript: Thinking after Arcadia 163
Appendix 1: The Burst Group Checklist as of October 2007 169
Appendix 2: The Arcadia Abstract 179
Acknowledgments 181
References 183
Index 185