Great Heroes and Discoveries of Astronomy. Episode 16, The Heroic Detection of Gravitational Waves
(2022, original release: 2021)
Nonfiction
eCourse
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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2021
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
13413080
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames
Dig into what gravitational waves are, as well as the enormous observatories and groups of scientists that accomplished the mind-blowing task of detecting them. Focus on the work of teams led by Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, whose Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected the tiny chirps of minuscule density waves in spacetime
Film
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Emily Levesque
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2021
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English