Name: Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
ISBN: 9780674971660

作者: Govert Schilling
原作名: Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
出版年: 2017-7-31
页数: 340
定价: USD 26.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780674971660

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"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...

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Govert Schilling (1956) is an internationally acclaimed astronomy writer in the Netherlands. He is a contributing editor of Sky & Telescope, and his articles have appeared in Science, New Scientist and BBC Sky at Night Magazine. He wrote over fifty books (in Dutch) on a wide variety of astronomical topics, some of which have been translated into English, including Evolving Cosm...

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Foreword Martin Rees vii
Introduction 1
1 A Spacetime Appetizer 5
2 Relatively Speaking 22
3 Einstein on Trial 40
4 Wave Talk and Bar Fights 60
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不过，索恩必须承受一个小小的失望。一开始，他希望《星际穿越》能够提到引力波，毕竟他是LIGO项目的发起者之一，而且据他所知，这些难以摸的时空涟漪可能会在电影上映的那一年被首次直接探测到。遗憾的是克里斯托弗诺兰认为这会把电影的故事线变得太过复杂。好在直到电影正式上映323天后，人类才第一次成功探测到引力波。据我了解，基普・索恩可能会写一部续集。 (查看原文)

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