Black hole blues and other songs from Outer Space
Levin, Janna2016
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Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong gravitational wave will briefly change that distance by less than the thickness of a human hair. We have perhaps less than a few tenths of a second to perform this measurement. And we don't know if this infinitesimal event will come next month, next year or perhaps in thirty years. In 1916 Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves: miniscule ripples in the very fabric of spacetime generated by unfathomably powerful events. For decades, astrophysicists have searched for a way of doing so. In 2016 a team of hundreds of scientists at work on a billion-dollar experiment made history when they announced the first ever detection of a gravitational wave, confirming Einstein's prediction. This is their story, and the story of the most accurate listening device ever made: LIGO.
Main title:
Black hole blues and other songs from Outer Space / Janna Levin.
Author:
Levin, Janna, author
Imprint:
London : The Bodley Head, 2016.
Collation:
241 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781847921963 (hbk)
Dewey class:
522.68522.68 LEV
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
378497