Black hole blues : and other songs from outer space /
Janna Levin.
Bok Engelsk 2016 · Historie
| Omfang | 241 sider ;
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| Utgave | First edition.
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| Opplysninger | When black holes collide -- High fidelity -- Natural resources -- Culture shock -- Joe Weber -- Prototypes -- The Troika -- The climb -- Weber and Trimble -- LHO -- Skunkworks -- Gambling -- Rashomon -- LLO -- Little cave on Figueroa -- The race is on.. - "In 1916, Einstein became the first to predict the existence of gravitational waves: sounds without a material medium generated by the unfathomably energy-producing collision of black holes. Now, Janna Levin, herself an astrophysicist, recounts the story of the search, over the last fifty years, for these elusive waves--a quest that has culminated in the creation of the most expensive project ever funded by the National Science Foundation (
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| Sjanger | Historie : (NoOU)REAL030087. - Populærvitenskap : (NoOU)REAL030121
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| ISBN | 9780307958198
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