Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy
Categories: Science & Math
Science writer Marcia Bartusiak tells the story of the long search for gravitational waves, the ripples in space-time predicted by Albert Einstein. She follows the scientists who spent decades building detectors and the LIGO project, which in 2015 detected waves from two colliding black holes. Bartusiak explains the science and the people behind this new kind of astronomy. First published in 2000, the book was updated in 2017.
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