Traveling at the speed of thought
Subtitle: Einstein and the quest for gravitational waves
By: Daniel Kennefick.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780691117270
Description: "Daniel Kennefick's landmark book takes readers through the theoretical controversies and thorny debates that raged around the subject of gravitational waves after the publication of Einstein's theory. The previously untold story of how we arrived at a settled theory of gravitational waves includes a stellar cast from the front ranks of twentieth-century physics, including Richard Feynman, Hermann Bondi, John Wheeler, Kip Thorne, and Einstein himself, who on two occasions avowed that gravitational waves do not exist, changing his mind both times."--Jacket.