Traveling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational WavesPrinceton University Press, 15. apr. 2007 - 319 síður Since Einstein first described them nearly a century ago, gravitational waves have been the subject of more sustained controversy than perhaps any other phenomenon in physics. These as yet undetected fluctuations in the shape of space-time were first predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity, but only now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, are we on the brink of finally observing them. |
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The Prehistory of Gravitational Waves | 18 |
The Origins of Gravitational Waves | 41 |
The Speed of Thought | 66 |
Do Gravitational Waves Exist? | 79 |
Gravitational Waves and the Renaissance | 105 |
Evgeny Lifshitz | 109 |
Debating the Analogy | 124 |
The Problem of Motion | 144 |
up to 1970 | 178 |
Portrait of the Skeptics | 180 |
On the Verge of Detection | 203 |
a neutron star binary | 229 |
The Quadrupole Formula Controversy | 231 |
Keeping Up with the Speed of Thought | 259 |
Sources | 290 |
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