Warp Speed
Frank Close: Gravitational Waves, 7 February 2008
Travelling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves
by Daniel Kennefick.
Princeton, 319 pp., £19.95, May 2007,978 0 691 11727 0 Show More
by Daniel Kennefick.
Princeton, 319 pp., £19.95, May 2007,
“... what? The story of gravity, and especially of gravitational waves, has been far from clear-cut; as Daniel Kennefick points out in Travelling at the Speed of Thought, Einstein’s ‘first reaction on the completion of his theory was to conclude that gravitational waves do not exist’. The majority opinion now is that they do, even though no definitive ... ”
