Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

Informationen zum Autor Janna Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University and Director of Sciences at Pioneer Works, a centre for art and innovation in Brooklyn. She has contributed to the understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions and gravitational waves. She was the first scientist-in-residence at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing at Oxford University with an award from NESTA, and was a Guggenheim fellow. Her previous books are How the Universe Got Its Spots, a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which won the PEN/Bingham prize, and Black Hole Blues , the first book to describe the detection of gravitational waves in 2016. She has also appeared at TED and contributes to numerous radio and television programmes. Klappentext The inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious scientific experiments of all time. Now in paperback. 'Gripping... very, very well written...' Bryan Appleyard, "Sunday Times" Zusammenfassung The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Sunday Times*'This is empirical poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Janna Levin, Levin Janna
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9780099569589
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956958-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Gravity, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe, Relativity physics, Astronomy, space and time, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology, SCIENCE / Physics / Gravity