Einstein's Unfinished Symphony Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time

by Bartusiak, Marcia

• ISBN13: 9780425186206
• ISBN10: 0425186202
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-04
• Publisher: Berkley Trade

Summary

In a handful of observatories around the world, scientists are waiting, and listening. Their quest: to be the first to detect gravitational waves, infinitesimal quakes that stretch and compress space-time and could add a brand-new dimension to our universal knowledge-allowing us to hear a sun going supernova, black holes colliding, and perhaps one day, the remnant rumble of the Big Bang itself...

Author Biography

Marcia Bartusiak, a former MIT Knight Fellow, is the author of two previous books, Thursday's Universe and Through a Universe Darkly, both of which were named Notable Books by the New York Times. The first woman to receive the presitigious Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics, she has also taught science journalism at Boston University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Prelude	p. 1
Space in G-Flat	p. 11
The Maestro Enters	p. 23
Starlight Waltz	p. 47
Pas de Deux	p. 67
Bars and Measures	p. 87
Dissonant Chords	p. 117
A Little Light Music	p. 149
Variations on a Theme	p. 175
The Music of the Spheres	p. 191
Finale	p. 213
Coda	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 241
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