Govert Schilling: Ripples in Spacetime, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Ripples in Spacetime
- Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy, with a New Afterword
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, 03/2019
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780674237742
- Item number:
- 8799617
- Edition number:
- 19002
- Ausgabe:
- 2nd edition
- Weight:
- 455 g
- Format:
- 208 x 141 mm
- Thickness:
- 27 mm
- Release date:
- 18.3.2019
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
A Physics Today Best Book of the Year A Forbes For the Physics and Astronomy Lover in Your Life Selection
Succinct, accessible, and remarkably timely This book is a rare find.
Physics Today
Belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in learning the scientific, historical, and personal stories behind some of the most incredible scientific advances of the 21st century.
Forbes
The detection of gravitational waves has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime over a hundred years ago, but they were only recently perceived directly for the first time. Ripples in Spacetime is an engaging account of the international effort to complete Einsteins project, capture his elusive ripples, and launch an era of gravitational-wave astronomy that promises to explain, more vividly than ever before, our universes structure and origin.
Schillings deliciously nerdy grand tour takes us through compelling backstory, current research, and future expectations.
Nature
A lively and readable account Schilling underlines that this discovery is the opening of a new window on the universe, the beginning of a new branch of science.
Graham Farmelo, The Guardian
Biography
Govert Schilling ist bekannt als Wissenschaftsjournalist und schreibt für Magazine wie 'Science', 'National Geographis' und 'Sky & Telescope'. Lange Jahre tätig beim Artis Planetarium in Amsteram. Zahlreiche Buchpublikationen zum Thema Astronomie. Der Autor lebt mit seiner Familie in Utrecht, Niederlande.