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Ripples in Spacetime
- Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Science & Engineering, Engineering
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Ripples in Spacetime is an engaging account of the international effort to complete Einstein's project, capture his elusive ripples, and launch an era of gravitational-wave astronomy that promises to explain, more vividly than ever before, our universe's structure and origin.
The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors. Govert Schilling takes listeners to sites where these stories unfolded - including Japan's KAGRA detector, Chile's Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the South Pole's BICEP detectors, and the United States' LIGO labs. He explains the seeming impossibility of developing technologies sensitive enough to detect waves from two colliding black holes in the very distant universe, and describes the astounding precision of the LIGO detectors. Along the way, Schilling clarifies concepts such as general relativity, neutron stars, and the big bang using language that listeners with little scientific background can grasp.
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- Kindle Customertg
- 09-05-18
New information instead of another history lesson
Great stuff and learnt lots of new things instead of the usual history lessons that are regularly told in these kind of books.
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- Tim
- 15-05-18
Outstanding
Really enjoyed this book. Some amazing content. Pitched just right for a moderately knowledgeable amateur to be able to follow the main thrust of the arguments.
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- Jack worsfold
- 18-12-20
Superbly Writtem
This is NOT a SCIENCE BOOK! Yes there are scientific concepts and yes there are some technical descriptions but Govert Schilling writes in a beautifully paired back style. the story of how Gravitational Waves (GW) were finally proved to be real is both a detective story and a story of Human endeavor. Its expansive and engaging. Schilling writes with obvious passion for the subject and it is also great to be able to look up the references he mentions in the text of meetings and announcements to do with the discovery.
A genuinely wonderful book that deserves the time spent to listen. Do not be afraid of the science content. It is handled with easy to understand metaphors and where that is not possible the concepts are broken down and there is enough contextual repetition of concepts to ensure by the end you understand the subject. A real gem this one and worth every penny...
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- slipperychimp
- 07-02-19
Well balanced theoretical and practical physics
If you have even a passing interest in understanding the nature of reality, this is the book for you. The explanation of the practical side of how LIGO and the other gravitational wave detectors work off the back of the theory is excellent.
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- JTT
- 02-07-18
great book
exciting history and contemporary research of gravitational waves and the universe. highly recommended. told as a thriller
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- B. Debski
- 01-05-22
good book but could be shorter
Written as popular science book, bit of history, facts and lots of Interesting info but on some point I started to drift away. Good performance.
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- Koroush Valiseh
- 09-06-21
great
Still a working progress, looking forward to the future of the elaboration of this universe of ours. We hunting so many things that we not aware of. Hopefully technology evolves to give the inside view.
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- Stop the lights
- 11-11-19
Very clear and easy to understand
It's not a subject that is easy to understand but Shilling does a great job. Very clear and easy to understand.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-09-19
Ripples
Loved this book ! Didn’t wander off the path , an up to date review on where we are regarding gravity waves .
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- Andy lane
- 24-10-18
Great content shame about the American narrator.
As above, great content told in an engaging way. Sadly the narrator spoiled it somewhat by his confusing and incorrect use of decimal language for example instead of saying one point two three four five six he would say one and twenty three thousand four hundred and fifty six hundred thousandths which spoils the flow as I translated his American into correct mathematical language. Sounds petty but it really grates. Very sad as the author did an amazing job of a difficult subject matter. If you can deal with the jarring numeric language its a great book.
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- Quidne IT
- 11-10-17
Absolutely Loved it.
Absolutely loved this book. Easy to follow, even if you are not an Astro Physicist. Finally got a good understanding of the expansion of spacetime, how to understand the Big Bang & Gravitational Waves.
Great details on the engineering of LIGO.
And off course the first detection of Gravitational Waves in late 2015.
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- Marc
- 24-09-18
Not so much about Ripples, but about measuring
Since this is the second time I review this title - I guess Audible deleted my previous review - I am summing up. I just don't have the will to give all the arguments over again that I gave the first time.
This book is undecided between telling a personal journey with anecdotes, vast amounts of name-dropping and place-mentioning that don't help with understanding the topic at all. and giving an insight into how "measuring quantum physics" developed over a century. While most of the historical sidenotes are interesting by themselves, they don't "help" that much with understanding what "ripples in spacetime ARE".
If you have a more or less "solid" background in what the current state of affairs in physics are, most of this book's content will be well known to you. If you don't you may find yourself slightly lost at times. So it *would* have been the subjective, personal experiences the author has "glimpse through" that could have made this a fascinating listen, but those incidents are rare, unconnected and unmotivated.
Narration is good, but very slow. I listened at 1.25 speed and that was fine.
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- kristen
- 20-11-17
Enjoyable journey through space-time!
The author does an outstanding job of relating the history of the search for Einstein Waves in a way that the layman can easily follow.
The science is on point but necessarily devoid of complexity, making this a wonderful resource for non-physicists.
I enjoyed it from start to finish.
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- Kristen Tahirak
- 07-09-18
Not horrible
Some interesting nuggets of information if you’re willing to wade through the superfluous, repetitive and watered-down cosmology background, as well as the author’s perplexingly continual and somewhat maddening practice of asking himself a question and then answering it. Why does he repeatedly do this? I know not.
8 people found this helpful
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- Mahmoud Sharab
- 06-12-19
Remarkable price of science
This book is unquestionably one of the most remarkable books I have encountered covering varies topics an historical idea of the development of space time ripples and LIGO development.
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- Kent McDaniel
- 06-03-22
Disappointing
Books on Einstein’s theories and quantum physics are among my favorites. This one was for me, however, an unenjoyable one. The author bogs the narrative down with constant superfluous detail, particularly about scientific devices, without making the details interesting or even particularly relevant. He also slips in a lot of contrived pop culture references, which annoy, and add nothing to the book. Finally the author’s decision to rename gravitational waves as “Einstein waves”seems merely silly at first but grows annoying as he goes on and on with it while at other times referring to them as gravitational waves. This book was a waste of my monthly credit.
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- Arizona Wildcat
- 09-03-21
Disorganized and rambling ....
I really wanted to love this book but it wouldn’t let me. I paid my dues and listened to every bit of this book. It just rambled from one disconnected topic to another and covered boring details like the area around observatories. It sounded like the script to a third-rate PBS documentary. It might be better if it had graphics or illustrations as supplementary material to add to the explanations.
I will not miss negative exponents such as 1x10 to the negative 15 annoyingly described as “zero point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one.” Anyone who needs such a childish and condescending explanation has no business picking up this book and hoping to understand any of the explanations of intensely more complex concepts and instrumentation.
And the narrator should know that Einstein is not pronounced “eye-un-stein”.
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- Zama
- 21-07-18
basic info repeated
I ended up liking this book but the best gravity wave book hasn't been written yet.
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- Pinot
- 31-05-19
OK, Dumbed Down, but worth a listen
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- Marshall
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Very good trip through the stars
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