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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Díaz, Mario (Mario Claudio), author.     Subjects     Gravitational waves.     Gravitational waves -- Detection.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Díaz, Mario (Mario Claudio), author.       by title:      The sounds of the co...         MARC Display

The sounds of the cosmos : gravitational waves and the birth of multi-messenger astronomy / Mario Díaz, Gabriela González, and Jorge Pullin. by Díaz, Mario (Mario Claudio), author. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023] Subjects Gravitational waves.   Gravitational waves -- Detection. ISBN:  9780262544948 (hardcover) : 0262544946 (hardcover) : Description:  224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents:  Gravity from the ancient Greeks to Newton -- Einstein's special theory of relativity -- The general theory of relativity -- Gravitational waves : their long and difficult history -- The life and death of stars -- Astrophysical sources of gravitational radiation -- Numerical relativity -- A brief history of terrestrial gravitational wave detectors -- The technology of LIGO -- At last: detections -- and many! -- The birth of GW multi-messenger astronomy -- The future. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The Sounds of the Cosmos vividly narrates contributions from the ancient Greeks through Einstein, in addition to the breakthroughs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including the discovery of the Hulse-Taylor binary star system (the first of its kind ever observed) and the technology behind gravitational wave detectors. The authors' fusion of meticulous research and accessible prose makes this book an indispensable resource for the scientifically curious, lending astonishing new context to the revelation that we can hear the cosmos through gravitational waves. Written with exceptional historical and conceptual insight, this is a definitive and dazzling journey through the eternal quest of humankind to understand the universe.-- Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 539.754 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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