Harry Collins's Gravitational Wave Project
Gravity's Shadow: The Search For Gravitational Waves; c. 864 pages; $100.00 or £70.00 cloth; $39.00 or £27.50 paper.
Presentation of work on this website does not imply endorsement by LIGO or any other gravitational wave project. Please note that all items within this site are copyright to Harry Collins.
This page introduces a long-running sociological project on the science of gravitational radiation detection.
It is primarily designed to be read by scientists involved in the search for gravitational radiation who are curious about the outsider who spends so much time spying on them.
I try to explain who I am and what I am doing. I have also added an introduction to gravitational wave detection for non-specialist scientists, social scientists and so forth, so that the page can be of wider interest.
Gravity's Shadow
Click here for the Table of Contents of Gravity's Shadow.
Gravity Wave News relevant to Gravity's Shadow.
Who is Harry Collins?
H. M. "Harry" Collins is Professor of Sociology, Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences and Director of KES.
His complete publication list includes about 100 papers and books on: sociology of science relationship of humans and intelligent machines social nature of expertise. Go to Main Books to find Bibliographic References and Brief Descriptions of Contents and Themes - including signposts to chapters on gravitational waves.
Papers on Gravitational Waves
Abstracts of Ten Papers on Gravitational Waves are listed below. Abstract 8 will not become a full paper. The arguments and most of the material from these papers/abstracts have been woven into Gravity's Shadow.