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Traveling at the speed of thought : Einstein and the quest for gravitational waves / Daniel Kennefick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, �2007Description: 1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400882748
  • 1400882745
Other title:
  • Einstein and the quest for gravitational waves
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Traveling at the speed of thoughtDDC classification:
  • 530.11 22
LOC classification:
  • QC179 .K46 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The gravitational wave analogy -- 2. The prehistory of gravitational waves -- 3. The origins of gravitational waves -- 4. The speed of thought -- 5. Do gravitational waves exist? -- 6. Gravitational waves and the renaissance of general relativity -- 7. Debating the analogy -- 8. The problem of motion -- 9. Portrait of the skeptics -- 10. On the verge of detection -- 11. The quadrupole formula controversy -- 12. Keeping up with the speed of thought -- Appendix A : The referee's report -- Appendix B : Interviews and other new sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Review: "Daniel Kennefick's landmark book takes readers through the theoretical controversies and thorny debates that raged around the subject of gravitational waves after the publication of Einstein's theory. The previously untold story of how we arrived at a settled theory of gravitational waves includes a stellar cast from the front ranks of twentieth-century physics, including Richard Feynman, Hermann Bondi, John Wheeler, Kip Thorne, and Einstein himself, who on two occasions avowed that gravitational waves do not exist, changing his mind both times."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-313) and index.

Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The gravitational wave analogy -- 2. The prehistory of gravitational waves -- 3. The origins of gravitational waves -- 4. The speed of thought -- 5. Do gravitational waves exist? -- 6. Gravitational waves and the renaissance of general relativity -- 7. Debating the analogy -- 8. The problem of motion -- 9. Portrait of the skeptics -- 10. On the verge of detection -- 11. The quadrupole formula controversy -- 12. Keeping up with the speed of thought -- Appendix A : The referee's report -- Appendix B : Interviews and other new sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Daniel Kennefick's landmark book takes readers through the theoretical controversies and thorny debates that raged around the subject of gravitational waves after the publication of Einstein's theory. The previously untold story of how we arrived at a settled theory of gravitational waves includes a stellar cast from the front ranks of twentieth-century physics, including Richard Feynman, Hermann Bondi, John Wheeler, Kip Thorne, and Einstein himself, who on two occasions avowed that gravitational waves do not exist, changing his mind both times."--Jacket.

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