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Description:
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A fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of a scientific discovery- the first detection of gravitational waves. Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of gravitational waves for fifty years. Then, in September 2015, came a "very interesting event" (as the cautious subject line in a physicist's email read) that proved to be the first detection of gravitational waves. In Gravity's Kiss, Harry Collins-who has been watching the science of gravitational wave detection for forty-three of those fifty years and has written three previous books about it-offers a final, fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of one of the most remarkable scientific discoveries ever made.
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