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Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog : Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
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- English
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014
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- 1 online resource (390 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9780226052328, 022605232X, 9780226052298
- OCLC
- on1047614756
- Preface to the Enlarged Edition; I. Gravity's Ghost: The Equinox Event; Introduction; 1. Gravitational-Wave Detection; 2. The Equinox Event: Early Days; 3. Resistance to Discovery; 4. The Equinox Event: The Middle Period; 5. The Hidden Histories of Statistical Tests; 6. The Equinox Event: The Denouement; 7. Gravity's Ghost; Envoi. Science in the Twenty-First Century; Postscript. Thinking after Arcadia; Appendix 1. The Burst Group Checklist as of October 2007; Appendix 2. The Arcadia Abstract; II. Big Dog; Introduction. Big Dog Barks; 8. Black Holes Observed?
- 9. Evidential Culture and Time10. Time Slides and Trials Factor; 11. Little Dogs; 12. Discovery or Evidence; 13. Closing Arguments; 14. Twenty-Five Philosophical Decisions; 15. Arcadia. Opening the Envelope; Appendix 3. Parameter Estimation; Glossary of Tree Pseudonyms with Descriptors; III. The Trees and the Forest: Sociological and Methodological Reflection; 16. The Sociology of Knowledge and Three Waves of Science Studies; 17. Methodological Reflection: On Going Native; Appendix 4. A Sociologist Tries to Do Some Physics; Acknowledgments; References; Index