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The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
A Book of Waves
By
Stefan Helmreich
Stefan Helmreich
Stefan Helmreich is Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of
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Duke University Press
Copyright:
This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-2453-8
Publication date:
2023
Book Chapter
Gravitational Waves, Sounded
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Published:August 2023
This short interstitial chapter listens to how the detection in 2016 of gravitational waves from the distant collision of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago was made audible through media that, similar to oceanographic formalisms, modeled the profiles of waves in advance of their arrival.
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