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Ripples On A Cosmic Sea (Paperback)
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Ripples On A Cosmic Sea (Paperback)
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Loot Price R476
Discovery Miles 4 760
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Most people live and work entirely oblivious to the fact that a
myriad of ghostly ripples are passing through them all the time.
Generated in the depths of space by colliding stars and black
holes, exploding supernovas and quasars, these so-called
gravitational waves are literally ripples in the fabric of space
itself. Sweeping across the cosmos at the speed of light, they
encode vital clues about the exotic systems that produced them.
Predicted by Einstein over eighty years ago, but never detected in
the laboratory, gravitational waves have proven elusive to
scientists. In the first book for a general reader on these amazing
waves, Blair and McNamara weave a thrilling tale about the race to
build the first gravitational wave antenna--a challenge that has
prompted physicists and astronomers to devise some of the most
breathtaking technology the world has ever seen. What these
scientists find will allow us to listen to the explosion of stars,
the creation of black holes, even the sound of the Big Bang itself,
and will undoubtedly chart a new course for astronomy in the coming
millennium.
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