"This book is a very impressive achievement. Kennefick skillfully
introduces readers to some of the most abstruse yet fascinating
concepts in modern physics stemming from Einstein's gravitational
theory. And he charts the often haphazard, meandering, at times
contentious development of these ideas over the course of nearly a
century. More than an intellectual history, this book is a kind of
detective story. Amid unfolding clues, partial insights, evolving
institutions, the play of personalities, and hard thinking, the
reader is treated to larger lessons about how theoretical physics
works. Until now, we had virtually no serious study of what
happened to Einstein's general relativity after he published his
famous equations. Kennefick is among the first to begin to fill in
this story."--David Kaiser, author of "Drawing Theories Apart: The
Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics"
"In this book, Kennefick describes a seventy-year quest, by
three generations of physicists, to discover relativity's
predictions about gravitational waves. Combining his skills as a
historian with his mastery of relativity and his powers as a
storyteller, he weaves a compelling narrative of intellectual
battles and mathematical struggles--and extracts fascinating
insights about the roles of mathematics, intuition, analogy, and
style, standards of proof, and the sociology of competing
schools."--Kip S. Thorne, California Institute of Technology
"This book is a very important contribution both to Einstein
studies and to the history of physics in general. It is also very
timely given the effort underway to detect gravitational waves. The
author is in an absolutely unique position to tell this story.He is
extremely well connected to the community of Einstein scholars, to
the community of physicists past and present working on
gravitational waves, and to the group of people working on the
history of the subject."--Michel Janssen, University of
Minnesota
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