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Einstein's unfinished symphony : the story of a gamble, two black holes, and a new age of astronomy /
A new generation of observatories, now being completed worldwide, will give astronomers not just a new window on the cosmos but a whole new sense with which to explore and experience the heavens above us. Instead of collecting light waves or radio waves, these novel instruments will allow astronomer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Einstein's unfinished symphony : |b the story of a gamble, two black holes, and a new age of astronomy / |c Marcia Bartusiak. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Prelude -- Space in G Flat -- The Maestro Enters -- Starlight Waltz -- Pas De Deux -- Bars and Measures -- Dissonant Chords -- A Little Light Music -- Variations on a Theme -- The Music of the Spheres -- Finale. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a A new generation of observatories, now being completed worldwide, will give astronomers not just a new window on the cosmos but a whole new sense with which to explore and experience the heavens above us. Instead of collecting light waves or radio waves, these novel instruments will allow astronomers to at last place their hands upon the fabric of space-time and feel the very rhythms of the universe. These vibrations in space-time-or gravity waves-are the last prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity yet to be observed directly. They are his unfinished symphony, waiting nearly a century to be heard. When they finally reveal themselves to astronomers, we will for the first time be able to hear the cymbal crashes from exploding stars, tune in to the periodic drumbeats from swiftly rotating pulsars, listen to the extended chirps from the merger of two black holes, and eavesdrop on the remnant echoes from the mighty jolt of the Big Bang itself. When Einstein introduced general relativity in 1915, it was hailed as a momentous conceptual achievement. Einstein attained celebrity status. But, once scientists verified what they could of the theory, given the scant experiments available at the time, general relativity became "largely a theoretical curiosity," writes Marcia Bartusiak. Now, after decades of technological advancement, general relativity is being tested with unprecedented accuracy. It even affects our everyday lives. Satellites used by both travelers and soldiers to peg their positions require constant corrections of Einsteinian precision. Meanwhile, the first gravity-wave "telescopes"--Including the LIGO facility-are about to come alive. | |
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