A Brief History of Gravitational Waves
History and Philosophy of Physics
2016-09-30 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
This review describes the discovery of gravitational waves. We recount the journey of predicting and finding those waves, since its beginning in the early twentieth century, their prediction by Einstein in 1916, theoretical and experimental blunders, efforts towards their detection, and finally the subsequent successful discovery.
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@article{arxiv.1609.09400,
title = {A Brief History of Gravitational Waves},
author = {Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota and Salvador Galindo-Uribarri and George F. Smoot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.09400},
year = {2016}
}
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30 pages