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| Note: At the same time, I checked out Collins and Kusch '''The Shape of Actions''', TA167.C65 1998. Vaguely interesting, but too much word salad. I'm more interested in how brains work than how we classify their actions. Of course, a sociologist would question my use of "work" and "actions" and other labels. |
Gravity Wave books
Skimmed:
Gravity's Ghost by Harry Collins, PSU QC179.C646 2011
Sociologist Harry Collins studying the LIGO Consortium, and how the scientists make decisions about what is true. They study absurdly weak and noisy signals, and they bend over backwards to avoid being fooled, as most believe that Joseph Weber and later Italian researchers were fooled.
Note: At the same time, I checked out Collins and Kusch The Shape of Actions, TA167.C65 1998. Vaguely interesting, but too much word salad. I'm more interested in how brains work than how we classify their actions. Of course, a sociologist would question my use of "work" and "actions" and other labels.
Gravitational Waves, Volume 1: Theory and Experiments, by Michele Maggiore, PSU QC179.M34 2008
Way too technical for me, mostly deriving the phenomena from General Relativity. Some interesting numbes and relatively simple algebra about the Hulse-Taylor pulsar, I could almost understand that.