Gravitational Waves under the Microscope

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Notes

^∗James Hough has spent the last 35 years developing gravitational wave detectors, both room temperature bars and long baseline laser interferometers. He was elected to the Royal Society in 2003 in recognition of his work in this field.

¹Joseph Weber died on 30 September 2000, aged 81.

²David Blair and Ju Li are now married.

³For more, see H. M. Collins, ‘The Seven Sexes: A Study of the Sociology of a Phenomenon, or the Replication of Experiments in Physics’, Sociology, 9 (1975), 205–24.

⁴On trust as an agent in scientific knowledge-making, Collins cites Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

⁵For a full account, see Harry Collins, ‘Stages in the Empirical Programme of Relativism’, Social Studies of Science, 11 (1981), 3–10