Ripples in Spacetime Paperback

Govert Schilling

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 astounding precision, weaving far-reaching discoveries about the universe into a gripping story of ambition and perseverance.

0674971663

English

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

2017

Govert Schilling is an astronomy journalist and writer based in the Netherlands.Martin Rees is a cosmologist and space scientist based in Cambridge, England. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal.Govert Schilling is an astronomy journalist and writer based in the Netherlands.