Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xv
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Common Acronyms in Gravitational Wave Research xxiii
6. Introduction: Two Kinds of Space-Time 1
7. PART I. Á LA RECHERCHE DES ONDES PERDUES
8. Chapter 1. The Start of a New Science 23
9. Chapter 2. From Idea to Experiment 35
10. Chapter 3. What Are Gravitational Waves? 66
11. Chapter 4. The First Published Results 74
12. Chapter 5. The Reservoir of Doubt 97
13. Chapter 6. The First Experiments by Others 116
14. Chapter 7. Joe Weber’s Findings Begin to Be Rejected in the Constitutive Forum 135
15. Chapter 8. Joe Weber Fights Back 142
16. Chapter 9. The Consensus Is Formed 154
17. Chapter 10. An Attempt to Break the Regress: The Calibration of Experiments 189
18. Chapter 11. Forgotten Waves 196
19. Chapter 12. How Waves Spread 206
20. PART II. TWO NEW TECHNOLOGIES
21. Chapter 13. The Start of Cryogenics 215
22. Chapter 14. NAUTILUS 234
23. Chapter 15. NAUTILUS, November 1996 to June 1998 254
24. Chapter 16. The Spheres 260
25. Chapter 17. The Start of Interferometry 265
26. Chapter 18. Caltech Enters the Game 284
27. PART III. BAR WARS
28. Chapter 19. The Science of the Life after Death of Room-Temperature Bars 305
29. Chapter 20. Scientific Institutions and Life after Death 329
30. Chapter 21. Room-Temperature Bars and the Policy Regress 358
31. Chapter 22. Scientific Cultures 392
32. Chapter 23. Resonant Technology and the National Science Foundation Review 435
33. Chapter 24. Ripples and Conferences 449
34. Chapter 25. Three More Conferences and a Funeral 454
35. Chapter 26. The Downtrodden Masses 480
36. Chapter 27. The Funding of LIGO and Its Consequences 489
37. PART IV. THE INTERFEROMETERS AND THE INTERFEROMETEERS—FROM SMALL SCIENCE TO BIG SCIENCE
38. Chapter 28. Moving Technology: What Is in a Large Interferometer? 515
39. Chapter 29. Moving Earth: The Sites 525
40. Chapter 30. Moving People: From Small Science to Big Science 546
41. Chapter 31. The Beginning of Coordinated Science 558
42. Chapter 32. The Drever Affair 572
43. Chapter 33. The End of the Skunk Works 584
44. Chapter 34. Regime 3: The Coordinators 592
45. Chapter 35. Mechanism versus Magic 603
46. Chapter 36. The 40-Meter Team versus the New Management, Continued 636
47. Chapter 37. Regime 4 (and 5): The Collaboration 647
48. PART V. BECOMING A NEW SCIENCE
49. Chapter 38. Pooling Data: Prospects and Problems 661
50. Chapter 39. International Collaboration among the Interferometer Groups 676
51. Chapter 40. When Is Science? The Meaning of Upper Limits 698
52. PART VI. SCIENCE, SCIENTISTS, AND SOCIOLOGY
53. Chapter 41. Coming On Air: The Study and Science 731
54. Chapter 42. Methodology as the Meeting of Two Cultures: The Study, Scientists, and the Public 745
55. Chapter 43. Final Reflections: The Study and Sociology 783
56. Chapter 44. Joe Weber: A Personal and Methodological Note 800
57. Coda: March-April 2004 813
58. Appendices 823
59. References 837
60. Index 855