Gravity's Shadow
The Search for Gravitational Waves
864 pages, 39 halftones, 31 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9
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2004
Cloth $108.00
ISBN: 9780226113777
Published September 2004
Paper $42.00
ISBN: 9780226113784
Published September 2004
Related links: The author's gravitational wave project website.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Common Acronyms in Gravitational Wave Research
Introduction Two Kinds of Space-Time
PART I à LA RECHERCHE DES ONDES PERDUES
Chapter 1 The Start of a New Science
Chapter 2 From Idea to Experiment
Chapter 3 What Are Gravitational Waves?
Chapter 4 The First Published
Chapter 5 The Reservoir of Doubt
Chapter 6 The First Experiments by Others
Chapter 7 Joe Weber's Findings Begin to Be Rejected in the Constitutive Forum
Chapter 8 Joe Weber Fights Back
Chapter 9 The Consensus Is Formed
Chapter 10 An Attempt to Break the Regress: The Calibration of Experiments
Chapter 11 Forgotten Waves
Chapter 12 How Waves Spread
PART II TWO NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Chapter 13 The Start of Cryogenics
Chapter 14 NAUTILUS
Chapter 15 NAUTILUS, November 1996 to June 1998
Chapter 16 The Spheres
Chapter 17 The Start of Interferometry
Chapter 18 Caltech Enters the Game
PART III BAR WARS
Chapter 19 The Science of the Life after Death of Room-Temperature Bars
Chapter 20 Scientific Institutions and Life after Death
Chapter 21 Room-Temperature Bars and the Policy Regress
Chapter 22 Scientific Cultures
Chapter 23 Resonant Technology and the National Science Foundation Review
Chapter 24 Ripples and Conferences
Chapter 25 Three More Conferences and a Funeral
Chapter 26 The Downtrodden Masses
Chapter 27 The Funding of LIGO and Its Consequences
PART IV THE INTERFEROMETERS AND THE INTERFEROMETEERS—FROM SMALL SCIENCE TO BIG SCIENCE
Chapter 28 Moving Technology: What Is in a Large Interferometer?
Chapter 29 Moving Earth: The Sites
Chapter 30 Moving People: From Small Science to Big Science
Chapter 31 The Beginning of Coordinated Science
Chapter 32 The Drever Affair
Chapter 33 The End of the Skunk Works
Chapter 34 Regime 3: The Coordinators
Chapter 35 Mechanism versus Magic
Chapter 36 The 40-Meter Team versus the New Management, Continued
Chapter 37 Regime 4 (and 5): The Collaboration
PART V BECOMING A NEW SCIENCE
Chapter 38 Pooling Data: Prospects and Problems
Chapter 39 International Collaboration among the Interferometer Groups
Chapter 40 When Is Science? The Meaning of Upper Limits
PART VI SCIENCE, SCIENTISTS, AND SOCIOLOGY
Chapter 41 Coming On Air: The Study and Science
Chapter 42 Methodology as the Meeting of Two Cultures: The Study, Scientists, and the Public
Chapter 43 Final Reflections: The Study and Sociology
Chapter 44 Joe Weber: A Personal and Methodological Note 000
Coda: January 2004
APPENDICES
Appendix Intro.1 What Is Small?
Appendix Intro.2 Gravitational Waves, Gravitational Radiation, and Gravity Waves: A Note on Terminology
Appendix Intro.3 Roger Babson's Essay, "Gravity—Our Enemy Number One"
Appendix III.1 Colonial Cringe
Appendix V.1 The Method
References
Index
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