Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space (Hardcover)

from brewbooks

Janna Levin has done a great job capturing the history of detecting gravitational waves. The book gives interesting insight into how people worked together (or not) in the development of a large physics project which took about fifty years from concept to successful detection of gravitational waves.

from nmele

I guess I am a physics nerd, because I was spellbound by this brief yet detailed history of the development of the LIGO and the search for gravitational waves. Levin knows her physics, and uses striking images and analogies to explain the physics behind the LIGO endeavor and why its results are s...

from brewbooks

Janna Levin has done a great job capturing the history of detecting gravitational waves. The book gives interesting insight into how people worked together (or not) in the development of a large physics project which took about fifty years from concept to successful detection of gravitational waves.

from nmele

I guess I am a physics nerd, because I was spellbound by this brief yet detailed history of the development of the LIGO and the search for gravitational waves. Levin knows her physics, and uses striking images and analogies to explain the physics behind the LIGO endeavor and why its results are s...