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Ripples on a Cosmic Sea : The Search for Gravitational Waves
by Blair, David
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0738201375
- ISBN 13
- 9780738201375
- Seller
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. U.S. Pbk edn.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: March 1998* Publisher: Helix Books, Addison-Wesley.* Binding and cover condition: Colour Photo-illustrated Soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawings and diagrams within text.* Pages: 180 pp. text. xvi pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Predicted by Einstein over eighty years ago, but never detected in the laboratory, gravitational waves have proven elusive to scientists. In the first book for a general reader on these amazing waves, Blair and McNamara weave a thrilling tale about the race to build the first gravitational wave antenna, a challenge that has prompted physicists and astronomers to devise some of the most breathtaking technology the world has ever seen. What these scientists find will allow us to listen to the explosion of stars, the creation of black holes, even the sound of the Big Bang itself, and will undoubtedly chart a new course for astronomy in the coming millennium.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the U.S. 1st./1st. dated 1998, with minimal shelf wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2755
- Title
- Ripples on a Cosmic Sea : The Search for Gravitational Waves
- Author
- Blair, David
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0738201375
- ISBN 13
- 9780738201375
- Publisher
- Helix Books. Perseus Books.
- Place of Publication
- Reading, Mass, USA. 196
- Date Published
- 1998-04-01
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