Название: Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos
Автор: Andrew Hicks
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190658207
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 344
Размер: 35,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

"We can hear the universe!" This was the triumphant proclamation at a February 2016 press conference announcing that the Laser Interferometer Gravity Observatory (LIGO) had detected a "transient gravitational-wave signal." What LIGO heard in the morning hours of September 14, 2015 was the vibration of cosmic forces unleashed with mind-boggling power across a cosmic medium of equally mind-boggling expansiveness: the transient ripple of two black holes colliding more than a billion years ago.