Gravity's Ghost

Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-first Century

Autor: Harry Collins

Limbă:

Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: The University of Chicago Press

Disponibilitate: șansă 50%

Şanse de a obține acest titlu

299.63 lei

In theory, at least, gravitational waves do exist. We are constantly bathed in gravitational radiati...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Harry Collins

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2010

Pagini

192

EAN

9780226113562

ISBN

0226113566

Enbook ID

04543548

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

426

Dimensiuni

153 x 236 x 21

Descriere completă

In theory, at least, gravitational waves do exist. We are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation, which is generated when stars explode or collide and a portion of their mass becomes energy that ripples out like a disturbance on the surface of a serene pond. But unfortunately no gravitational wave has ever been directly detected, even though the search has lasted more than forty years. As the leading chronicler of the search for gravitational waves, Harry Collins has been right there with the scientists since the start. The result of his unprecedented access to the front lines of physical science is "Gravity's Ghost", a thrilling chronicle of high-stakes research and cutting-edge discovery. Here, Collins reveals that scientific discovery and nondiscovery can turn on scientific traditions and rivalries, that ideal statistical analysis rests on impossible procedures and unattainable knowledge, and that fact in one place is baseless assumption in another. He also argues that sciences like gravitational wave detection, in exemplifying how the intractable is to be handled, can offer scientific leadership a moral beacon for the twenty-first century. In the end, "Gravity's Ghost" shows that discoveries are the denouements of dramatic scientific mysteries.

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Gravity's Ghost

Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-first Century

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și