Gravity's shadow : the search for gravitational waves /

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Author / Creator:Collins, Harry.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Description:xxiii, 870 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's c.2 is in hardcover; c.3 is in softcover.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5361832
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ISBN:0226113779 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0226113787 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 837-854) and index.

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505 0 0 |t Common acronyms in gravitational wave research --  |t Introduction : two kinds of space-time --  |g Ch. 1.  |t The start of a new science --  |g Ch. 2.  |t From idea to experiment --  |g Ch. 3.  |t What are gravitational waves? --  |g Ch. 4.  |t The first published results --  |g Ch. 5.  |t The reservoir of doubt --  |g Ch. 6.  |t The first experiments by others --  |g Ch. 7.  |t Joe Weber's findings begin to be rejected in the constitutive forum --  |g Ch. 8.  |t Joe Weber fights back --  |g Ch. 9.  |t The consensus is formed --  |g Ch. 10.  |t An attempt to break the regress : the calibration of experiments --  |g Ch. 11.  |t Forgotten waves --  |g Ch. 12.  |t How waves spread --  |g Ch. 13.  |t The start of cryogenics --  |g Ch. 14.  |t Nautilus --  |g Ch. 15.  |t Nautilus, November 1996 to June 1998 --  |g Ch. 16.  |t The spheres --  |g Ch. 17.  |t The start of interferometry --  |g Ch. 18.  |t Caltech enters the game --  |g Ch. 19.  |t The science of the life after death of room-temperature bars --  |g Ch. 20.  |t Scientific institutions and life after death --  |g Ch. 21.  |t Room-temperature bars and the policy regress --  |g Ch. 22.  |t Scientific cultures --  |g Ch. 23.  |t Resonant technology and the National Science Foundation review --  |g Ch. 24.  |t Ripples and conferences --  |g Ch. 25.  |t Three more conferences and a funeral --  |g Ch. 26.  |t The downtrodden masses --  |g Ch. 27.  |t The funding of LIGO and its consequences --  |g Ch. 28.  |t Moving technology : what is in a large interferometer? --  |g Ch. 29.  |t Moving Earth : the sites --  |g Ch. 30.  |t Moving people : from small science to big science --  |g Ch. 31.  |t The beginning of coordinated science --  |g Ch. 32.  |t The Drever affair --  |g Ch. 33.  |t The end of the skunk works --  |g Ch. 34.  |t Regime 3 : the coordinators --  |g Ch. 35.  |t Mechanism versus magic --  |g Ch. 36.  |t The 40-meter team versus the new management, continued --  |g Ch. 37.  |t Regime 4 (and 5) : the collaboration --  |g Ch. 38.  |t Pooling data : prospects and problems --  |g Ch. 39.  |t International collaboration among the interferometer groups --  |g Ch. 40.  |t When is science? : the meaning of upper limits --  |g Ch. 41.  |t Coming on air : the study and science --  |g Ch. 42.  |t Methodology as the meeting of two cultures : the study, scientists, and the public --  |g Ch. 43.  |t Final reflections : the study and sociology --  |g Ch. 44.  |t Joe Weber : a personal and methodological note --  |t Coda : March-April 2004 : new developments since the main part of the book was completed --  |g App.  |t What is small? --  |g App.  |t Gravitational waves, gravitational radiation, and gravity waves : a note on terminology --  |g App.  |t Roger Babson's essay, "Gravity - our enemy number one" --  |g App.  |t Colonial cringe --  |g App.  |t The method. 
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