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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Janna Levin, PaperbackOriginal price was: $18.00.$15.30Current price is: $15.30.
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The authoritative story of Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne’s Nobel Prize-winning discovery of gravitational waves–by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.
With A New PrefaceIn 1916, Einstein predicted the presence of gravitational waves. One century later, we are recording the first sounds from space, evidence of the waves’ existence caused by the collision of two black holes. An authoritative account of the headline-making discovery by theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer Janna Levin, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space recounts the fascinating story of the obsessions, aspirations, and trials of the scientists who embarked on an arduous fifty-year endeavor to capture these elusive wavesFive decades after the experiment was dreamed up, the team races to intercept a wisp of sound with two colossal machines, hoping to succeed in time for the centenary of Einstein’s most radical idea. With unprecendented access to the surprises, disappointments, achievements, and risks in this remarkable story, Janna Levin’s absorbing account offers a portrait of modern science that is unlike anything we’ve seen before.
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Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Janna Levin
Published: 04/18/2017
Publisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9780307948489
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
Additional information
Weight | 0.6 lbs |
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Dimensions | 7.9 × 5.1 × 0.8 in |
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