Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy - Hardcover

Schilling, Govert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674971663 ISBN 13: 9780674971660

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2017

Synopsis

"The detection of gravitational waves - ripples in spacetime - by the Ligo-Virgo observatories has already been called the scientific coup of this century and lead to the scientists responsible being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics. Govert Schilling recounts the struggles that threatened to derail the quest and describes the detector's astounding precision, weaving far-reaching discoveries about the universe into a gripping story of ambition and perseverance."

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About the Authors

Govert Schilling is the author of dozens of popular astronomy books, including Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy. He received the Eureka Prize from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the David N. Schramm Award from the American Astronomical Society. In 2007 the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid, 10986 Govert, in his honor.

Martin Rees, the UK’s Astronomer Royal, was previously Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. A past president of the Royal Society, he has won numerous awards, including the Templeton Prize and the inaugural Fritz Zwicky Prize. The author of ten books and more than 500 research papers, he cofounded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674971663
• ISBN 13: 9780674971660
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352