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Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog : Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century /
Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but also transform astronomy. Although no...
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[2014]
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Preface to the Enlarged Edition -- |t I. Gravity's Ghost: The Equinox Event -- |t Introduction -- |t 1. Gravitational-Wave Detection -- |t 2. The Equinox Event: Early Days -- |t 3. Resistance to Discovery -- |t 4. The Equinox Event: The Middle Period -- |t 5. The Hidden Histories of Statistical Tests -- |t 6. The Equinox Event: The Denouement -- |t 7. Gravity's Ghost -- |t Envoi. Science in the Twenty-First Century -- |t Postscript. Thinking after Arcadia -- |t Appendix 1. The Burst Group Checklist as of October 2007 -- |t Appendix 2. The Arcadia Abstract -- |t II. Big Dog -- |t Introduction. Big Dog Barks -- |t 8. Black Holes Observed? -- |t 9. Evidential Culture and Time -- |t 10. Time Slides and Trials Factor -- |t 11. Little Dogs -- |t 12. Discovery or Evidence -- |t 13. Closing Arguments -- |t 14. Twenty-Five Philosophical Decisions -- |t 15. Arcadia. Opening the Envelope -- |t Appendix 3. Parameter Estimation -- |t Glossary of Tree Pseudonyms with Descriptors -- |t III. The Trees and the Forest: Sociological and Methodological Reflection -- |t 16. The Sociology of Knowledge and Three Waves of Science Studies -- |t 17. Methodological Reflection: On Going Native -- |t Appendix 4. A Sociologist Tries to Do Some Physics -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t References -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but also transform astronomy. Although no gravitational wave has ever been directly detected, the previous five years have been an especially exciting period in the field. Here sociologist Harry Collins offers readers an unprecedented view of gravitational wave research and explains what it means for an analyst to do work of this kind. Collins was embedded with the gravitational wave physicists as they confronted two possible discoveries-"Big Dog," fully analyzed in this volume for the first time, and the "Equinox Event," which was first chronicled by Collins in Gravity's Ghost. Collins records the agonizing arguments that arose as the scientists worked out what they had seen and how to present it to the world, along the way demonstrating how even the most statistical of sciences rest on social and philosophical choices. Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog draws on nearly fifty years of fieldwork observing scientists at the American Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and elsewhere around the world to offer an inspired commentary on the place of science in society today. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Gravitational waves -- Research -- History. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Science -- Social aspects. | |
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| 653 | |a nuclear engineering, astronomy, astrophysics, ripples in space-time, general relativity, einsteins theories, big dog, equinox event, philosophical choices, american laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory, cosmic waves, energy, sociological fieldwork, thought-provoking study, pioneering science, space, experiments, scientific discovery, statistical tests, parameter estimation, methodology, theory, black holes. | ||
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