ISBN0262036185 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262036184 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
一般注記The first week : we have coherence -- Reservations and complications : malicious injections? -- Half a century of gravitational wave detection -- Weeks 2 and 3 : the freeze, rumors -- Week 4 : the box is opened -- Week 5 to the end of October : directness, black holes -- November : ripples, beliefs, and second Monday -- November : writing the discovery paper -- December, weeks 12-16 : the proof regress, relentless professionalism, and the third event -- January and February : the LVC-wide meetings and the submission -- The last ripples : from the press conferences to the American Physical Society and the rest of the world -- Changing order : the long aha! -- On the nature of science -- The book, the author, the community, and expertise -- Postscript: The beginning of gravitational wave astronomy -- How the book was written and those who helped -- Sociological and philosophical notes -- Appendices: Procedure for making a first discovery ; First draft of the discovery paper without author list or bibliography ; Rules for author lists.