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Traveling at the speed of thought : Einstein and the quest for gravitational waves
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Traveling at the speed of thought : Einstein and the quest for gravitational waves

Author: Daniel Kennefick
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Daniel Kennefick's landmark book takes readers through the theoretical controversies and thorny debates that raged around the subject of gravitational waves after the publication of Einstein's theory. The previously untold story of how we arrived at a settled theory of gravitational waves includes a stellar cast from the front ranks of twentieth-century physics, including Richard Feynman, Hermann Bondi, John  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Daniel Kennefick
ISBN: 0691117276 9780691117270
OCLC Number: 123434791
Description: xii, 319 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Illustrations --
Acknowledgments --
1. The gravitational wave analogy --
2. The prehistory of gravitational waves --
3. The origins of gravitational waves --
4. The speed of thought --
5. Do gravitational waves exist? --
6. Gravitational waves and the renaissance of general relativity --
7. Debating the analogy --
8. The problem of motion --
9. Portrait of the skeptics --
10. On the verge of detection --
11. The quadrupole formula controversy --
12. Keeping up with the speed of thought --
Appendix A : The referee's report --
Appendix B : Interviews and other new sources --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index.
Other Titles: Einstein and the quest for gravitational waves
Responsibility: Daniel Kennefick.
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Since Einstein first described them, gravitational waves have been the subject of more sustained controversy than perhaps any other phenomenon in physics. This book takes readers through the  Read more...

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The great achievement of Daniel Kennefick's fascinating Traveling at the Speed of Thought is that he takes...assumed existence of gravitational waves apart. He is not out to show that they do not Read more...

 
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