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Gravity's ghost : scientific discovery in the twenty-first century / Harry Collins.
LIBRA QC179 .C646 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gravitational waves--Research--History.
- Gravitational waves.
- Gravitational waves--Experiments.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Research.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- v, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Gravitational wave detection
- The Equinox Event: early days
- Resistance to discovery
- The Equinox Event: the middle period
- The hidden histories of statistical tests
- The Equinox Event: the denouement
- Gravity's ghost
- Envoi: science in the twenty-first century
- Postscript: thinking after Arcadia
- Appendix 1: The Burst Group checklist as of October 2007
- Appendix 2: The Burst Group abstract prepared for the Arcadia meeting.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226113562
- 0226113566
- OCLC:
- 587209575
- Publisher Number:
- 99941673606
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