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Ripples on a Cosmic Sea: The Search for Gravitational Waves

by Blair, David; McNamara, Geoff; Blair | HC | Good
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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
1 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
Yes
ISBN
0201360829
Publication Year
1998
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Ripples on a Cosmic Sea : the Search for Gravitational Waves
Book Series
Helix Bks.
Author
Geoff Mcnamara, David Blair
Item Length
8.2 in
Publisher
Perseus Books Group
Genre
Science
Topic
General, Physics / Relativity
Item Width
5.4 in
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Perseus Books Group
ISBN-10
0201360829
ISBN-13
9780201360820
eBay Product ID (ePID)
585528

Product Key Features

Book Title
Ripples on a Cosmic Sea : the Search for Gravitational Waves
Author
Geoff Mcnamara, David Blair
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Physics / Relativity
Book Series
Helix Bks.
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Qb991.C64b54 1997
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
98-016127
Dewey Decimal
523.1
Dewey Edition
21

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