@article{806172,
      recid = {806172},
      author = {Collins, H. M.},
      title = {Gravity's kiss : the detection of gravitational waves /},
      pages = {vi, 408 pages :},
      abstract = {"Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of  gravitational waves for fifty years. Then, in September  2015, came a 'very interesting event' (as the cautious  subject line in a physicist's email read) that proved to be  the first detection of gravitational waves. In Gravity's  Kiss, Harry Collins -- who has been watching the science of  gravitational wave detection for forty-three of those fifty  years and has written three previous books about it --  offers a final, fascinating account, written in real time,  of the unfolding of one of the most remarkable scientific  discoveries ever made. Predicted by Einstein in his theory  of general relativity, gravitational waves carry energy  from the collision or explosion of stars. Dying binary  stars, for example, rotate faster and faster around each  other until they merge, emitting a burst of gravitational  waves. It is only with the development of extraordinarily  sensitive, highly sophisticated detectors that physicists  can now confirm Einstein's prediction. This is the story  that Collins tells. Collins, a sociologist of science who  has been embedded in the gravitational wave community since  1972, traces the detection, the analysis, the confirmation,  and the public presentation and the reception of the  discovery -- from the first email to the final published  paper and the response of professionals and the public.  Collins shows that science today is collaborative,  far-flung (with the physical location of the participants  hardly mattering), and sometimes secretive, but still one  of the few institutions that has integrity built into  it"--Publisher's description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/806172},
}