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" Gravity's shadow : "
Harry Collins
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BL
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581563
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b410782
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| Main Entry
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Collins, H. M., (Harry M.),1943-
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Gravity's shadow : : the search for gravitational waves /\ Harry Collins
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xxiii, 870 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0226113779
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: 9780226113777
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: 0226113787
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: 9780226113784
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 837-854) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Gravitational waves-- Research
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Gravitational waves-- Measurement
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| Dewey Classification
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539.7/54
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QC179.C65 2004
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