Gravity's kiss: The detection of gravitational waves

✍ Scribed by Collins, Harry M

Publisher: The MIT Press. copyright 2017
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 415
Category: Library

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✦ Subjects

Rayonnement gravitationnel -- Recherche.;Relativité générale (physique).;Gravitational waves -- Research.;General relativity (Physics)

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