Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the Enlarged Edition ix
4. I. Gravity’s Ghost: The Equinox Event
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Gravitational-Wave Detection 7
7. 2. The Equinox Event: Early Days 23
8. 3. Resistance to Discovery 49
9. 4. The Equinox Event: The Middle Period 71
10. 5. The Hidden Histories of Statistical Tests 93
11. 6. The Equinox Event: The Denouement 111
12. 7. Gravity’s Ghost 127
13. Envoi. Science in the Twenty-First Century 153
14. Postscript. Thinking after Arcadia 163
15. Appendix 1. The Burst Group Checklist as of October 2007 169
16. Appendix 2. The Arcadia Abstract 179
17. II. Big Dog
18. Introduction. Big Dog Barks 183
19. 8. Black Holes Observed? 189
20. 9. Evidential Culture and Time 201
21. 10. Time Slides and Trials Factor 205
22. 11. Little Dogs 213
23. 12. Discovery or Evidence 229
24. 13. Closing Arguments 253
25. 14. Twenty-Five Philosophical Decisions 269
26. 15. Arcadia. Opening the Envelope 277
27. Appendix 3. Parameter Estimation 291
28. Glossary of Tree Pseudonyms with Descriptors 293
29. III. The Trees and the Forest: Sociological and Methodological Reflection
30. 16. The Sociology of Knowledge and Three Waves of Science Studies 297
31. 17. Methodological Reflection: On Going Native 319
32. Appendix 4. A Sociologist Tries to Do Some Physics 355
33. Acknowledgments 363
34. References 367
35. Index 373