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Gravity!: The Quest for Gravitational Waves de Pierre Binétruy

Gravity!: The Quest for Gravitational Waves

Autor Pierre Binétruy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 mai 2018
What force do the Big Bang, the expansion of the Universe, dark matter and dark energy, black holes, and gravitational waves all have in common? This book uncovers gravity as a key to understanding these fascinating phenomena that have so captivated public interest in recent years. Readers will discover the latest findings on how this familiar force in our everyday lives powers the most colossal changes in the Universe. Written by the widely recognized French public scientist and leading astrophysicist Pierre Binétruy, the book also explains the recent experimental confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198796510
ISBN-10: 019879651X
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 25 color half tones, 89 color line drawings, 3 grayscale halftone and 8 grayscale line illustrations
Dimensiuni: 148 x 223 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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This is a brilliant and accessible illustrated book about gravity and gravitational waves... The book will surely become a classic in explaining gravity in such an engaging manner, reflecting as it does the late authors stellar reputation as a science communicator.
The writing and content is approachable and gives rather more depth than many popular science books on the topic, without getting too technical.
This delightfully written book takes the reader on a journey though the history of gravity, from the 16th century experiments of Galileo, through the remarkable insights of Einstein, to the recent observations of gravitational radiation from cataclysmic cosmic events: the merger of two black holes. The history of the Universe itself, from the Big Bang to the present, is traced in a way that delineates the essential role played by gravity in its evolution. The reader is afforded the option of following these stories with varying degrees of attention to technical detail. At whatever level suits ones taste, a fascinating trip is in store.
On 11 February 2016, scientists announced the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes at a distance of 1.3 billion light years from Earth. This was followed by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017, making gravitational waves the science story of the year, and possibly of the decade. This is an excellent book on the topic by an outstanding author who was a recognized public philosopher in France.
Pierre Binétruy was a first rank physicist, an inspiring leader, an outstanding communicator and a good friend to so many of his colleagues. His cultured, yet lucid writing and clever illustrations infuse this books heady brew of general relativity, cosmology and quantum mechanics as they are today. GRAVITY! C'est magnifique!
A well-written book on the very important topic of gravity. From the historical understanding of this fundamental force to modern, contemporary research and thought, including the astounding capture of two binary black holes merging into one, Gravity! covers it all. The book is richly illustrated with meaningful graphics, and is well-written for all levels of readers. This is a book you want on your primary bookshelf; front and center.
Pierre Binétruy was a great scientist and a great visionary. He lives on in this book. I will treasure it.

Notă biografică

Pierre Binétruy was a theorist working on various aspects of the gravitational universe: cosmic inflation, dark energy and dark matter, black holes and gravitational waves. He was recently very active in setting up the future space gravitational wave observatory, the LISA mission. He was a professor at Université Paris Diderot, and the director of the Paris Centre for Cosmological Physics, which he established in 2010 with George Smoot, the Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 2006. He taught the online course 'Gravity!', which attracted close to 100,000 learners in its first two years.