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Philosophy of science --- Science --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects.
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Philosophy of science --- Science --- Sciences --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Experiments --- Philosophy --- Aspect social --- Philosophie --- Expériences --- Expériences
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"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.
Cosmology --- Theory of relativity. Unified field theory --- Geophysics --- Gravitational waves --- General relativity (Physics) --- Relativistic theory of gravitation --- Relativity theory, General --- Gravitation --- Physics --- Relativity (Physics) --- Detection. --- Detection of gravitational waves --- Gravitational radiation --- Gravity waves (Astrophysics) --- Gravitational fields --- Radiation --- Waves --- Research
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Democracy and science. --- Science --- Science and state. --- Political aspects.
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Philosophy of science --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Parapsychology --- Metaphysics (Parapsychology) --- Paranormal phenomena --- Psi (Parapsychology) --- Psychic phenomena --- Psychical research --- Psychology --- Occultism --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology
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Science --- Sciences --- Miscellanea --- Miscellanées --- Controverses scientifiques --- History --- Social aspects --- Miscellanées --- Science - History --- Science - Social aspects - History --- Sciences - Miscellanees --- RECHERCHE --- SCIENCES --- SCIENCE --- SOCIOLOGIE --- ASPECT SOCIAL --- PRATIQUE
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Science --- Sciences --- Controverses scientifiques --- History --- Social aspects --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Social aspects&delete& --- Science policy --- Sociology of knowledge --- Philosophy of science --- History. --- history --- Natural sciences --- Science - History --- Science - Social aspects - History --- Sciences - Miscellanees
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In the very successful and widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The Golem: What You Should Know About Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, a powerful creature which, while not evil, can be dangerous because it is clumsy. In this second volume, the authors now consider the Golem of technology. In a series of case studies they demonstrate that the imperfections in technology are related to the uncertainties in science described in the first volume. The case studies cover the role of the Patriot anti-missile missile in the Gulf War, the Challenger space shuttle explosion, tests of nuclear fuel flasks and of anti-misting kerosene as a fuel for airplanes, economic modeling, the question of the origins of oil, analysis of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the contribution of lay expertise to the analysis of treatments for AIDS.
Technology --- Science --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Social aspects
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