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Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog - Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog - Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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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. He 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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