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Ripples in spacetime : Einstein, gravitational waves, and the future of astronomy /
It has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century: the detection of gravitational waves. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime nearly a hundred years ago, but they were never perceived directly until now. Decades in the making, this momentous discovery...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A spacetime appetizer
- Relatively speaking
- Einstein on trial
- Wave talk and bar fights
- The lives of stars
- Clockwork precision
- Laser quest
- The path to perfection
- Creation stories
- Cold case
- Gotcha
- Black magic
- Nanoscience
- Follow-up questions
- Space invaders
- Surf's up for Einstein wave astronomy.