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Einstein, gravitational waves, and the future of astronomy kindle edition by schilling, govert, rees, martin, schilling, govert. Instead of a splash followed by dissipating ripples, the gravitational waves should come as faint echoes of the original event. When ligo is running, the entire leg is emptied of air and becomes a vacuum. Waves, and the future of astronomy is a succinct, accessible, and remarkably. Govert schilling published on 20170731 by harvard university press. The detection of gravitational waves ripples in spacetime has already been called the scientific coup of this century.
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