Einstein's Unfinished Symphony (eBook)

The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy

Marcia Bartusiak (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
297 Seiten
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-22812-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This updated edition of the New York Times Notable Book recounts the long hunt for Einstein's predicted gravitational waves-and celebrates their discovery. In February 2016, astronomers announced that they had verified the last remaining prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity vibrations in space-time, called gravitational waves. Humanity can now tune in to a cosmic orchestra. We have heard the chirp of two black holes dancing toward a violent union. We will hear the cymbal crashes from exploding stars, the periodic drumbeats from swiftly rotating pulsars, and maybe even the echoes from the Big Bang itself. More than a decade earlier, Marcia Bartusiak chronicled the gamble taken by astronomers who were determined to prove Einstein right. In their quest to detect gravitational waves, they built the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, the most accurate measuring devices ever created. In this updated edition, Bartusiak brings the story to a thrilling close with the triumphant discovery of gravitational waves made with the LIGO. "e;An important, multifaceted scientific story part theoretical physics, part astronomy, part experimental physics, part engineering."e; James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.8.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
• ISBN-10: 0-300-22812-0 / 0300228120
• ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22812-0 / 9780300228120