| Collation |
xxiii, 870 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 837-854) and index. |
| Contents |
Two kinds of space-time -- The start of a new science -- From idea to experiment -- What are gravitational waves? -- The first published results -- The reservoir of doubt -- The first experiments by others -- Joe Weber's findings begin to be rejected in the constitutive forum -- Joe Weber fights back -- The consensus is formed -- an attempt to break the regress : the calibration of experiments -- Forgotten waves -- How waves spread -- The start of cryogenics -- NAUTILUS -- NAUTILUS, November 1996 to June 1998 -- The spheres -- The start of interferometry -- Caltech enters the game -- The science of the life after death of room-temperature bars -- Scientific institutions and life after death -- Room-temperature bars and the policy regress -- Scientific cultures -- Resonant technology and the National Science Foundation review -- Ripples and conferences -- Three more conferences and a funeral -- The downtrodden masses -- The funding of LIGO and its consequences -- Moving technology : what is in a large interferometer? -- Moving earth : the sites -- Moving people : from small science to big science -- The beginning of coordinated science -- The Drever affair -- The end of the Skunk Works -- Regime 3: the coordinators -- Mechanism versus magic -- The 40-Meter team versus the new management, continued -- Regime 4 (and 5) : the collaboration -- Pooling data : prospects and problems -- International collaboration among the interferometer groups -- When is science? : the meaning of upper limits -- Coming on air : the study and science -- Methodology as the meeting of two cultures : the study, scientists, and the public -- Final reflections : the study and sociology -- Joe Weber : a personal and methodological note. |
| Note |
Gift of Frank W. Summers. |
| Subject |
Gravitational waves -- Research.
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Gravitational waves -- Measurement.
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| ISBN |
0226113779 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780226113777 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0226113787 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780226113784 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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